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CHAPTER I

Thi. idcii of niciking a visit to my nephew,
Vernon Hugo Hawkins, who Hves in the
North-West Provinces, India, and has an
appointment in the Forest Department, came
to m(' in the night. It was the night, to be
qmtc; accurate, of the fifteenth of November,
ig^2. I am perfectly certain about the date
because it is down in my diary, recording the
birth of the vicar's wife's seventh daughter.
with some observations. All the afternoon
I had been dressing dolls in early Victorian
styles for a Zenana mission at a work [)arty,
while Letitia Bray read aloud a book of
tmvols in the East, and when I went to bed

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I found my imagination so taken iij) v asW^e
Oriental matters that I could not sleep I cc
tossed about for hours wrestling, so to spf priet
with cocoanut palms, and the sacred Gan^ He
and little heathen with nothing on My ni abso
was a chaos of temples to Krishna and R is n<
pore chudders, mosques and nose-rings, II p^jft;
doo widows and Brahminy bulls. Strang own
enough, the only Oriental object with w! ouf 1
I was acquainted, Vernon Hawkins, and
not occur to me until nearly two o'clock illlin
the morning. With him, however, ci upor
the inspiration to make the journey ; an was
found repose in the determination to go i * ^h
self and see whether the monkeys did l)n t»^^'
open the cocoanuts by throwing them (k tnfe
from the trees, whether victims really allov | J
themselves to be crushed by the wheels ^^^^
the car of Juggernaut, and to what extent wae
natives actually were adopting our civilisaii ^^ t
our clothes, and the Thirty-nine Articles. c»«Mr
Next day I hesitated a little, ik ^'J"
having been out of England before.

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n up w aSKcd Mr. Grulc whether, in his opinion,
it sleep I could iMulertake it with snfcty and pro-
;o to sp( priety alone. Mr. Grule is the curate,
ed Gan- H|B assured me that he thought I could

My m absolutely. A sense of humour in a curate
I and R is not an advantage. Then I told the work
rings, li part)', which met on that occasion at my

Straiif: own house. We had guava jelly with
with wl. ouf bread-and-butter to mark the occasion ;
Lwkins. an<i th(^ reading of the travels in the East was
) o'clock illumined by my prospective information
ever, ca ugi)n all points. Whenever an e.\})lanati<)n
ney ; an was reciuired Letitia Bray would exclaim,
itogor ' @h. }A\'>'^ Moffat can tell us — :/ue is going
3 did ])n there ! ' and I cannot say that I did not find
them (1( this gratifying.

allyallov 1 1^'^<^1 always seen a good deal of my

\ wheels nephew Vernon. I used to brush his hair
t extent when he wore it in curls, and endeavour to
civilisat: see that he was respectable when he went to
Vrticles. church. At an early stage I became associated
ittle, ne »«-lii^ acquisitive young mind with tops and
before. ; Wves and marbles and unexpected pieces (^f

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seed cake. After that I remember trvino to
make him understand in French that it \\a^
the shoemaker, and not the car])enter, wlii
had the silk hat of the baker, and later I In
quently directed his attention to his spellini^
All this was pure virtue on my [)art, for I hiiM
cherished an unabated intolerance towan
boys for nearly forty years, and Vernoi
Hawkins had all the characteristics of hi^
species. He was precocious and noisy, aiii
always w^anted to see the insides of thini:^^
He did not understand a snub, and he hated
bath. He bird's-nested, tore his clothes, am
once he drowned five kittens. The kittens hai
to be disposed of, but I would never ha\
allowed it to be done by a relative. 1 1'
slammed doors. His other friends wen
pleased to .speak of him as a ' nice, good
hearted boy' ; but all I know is that as sooi
as he had learned to keep himself reasonal)!;.
clean and sustain more than a monosyllabk
conversation, and enter a drawing-room wiilv
out injury to the furniture, he took himself c'

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|o India. I had written to him once or twice
|n(|iiirinn' about certain missions in which I am
Ipccially interested, and in reply had received
bric;f epistles descriptive of the weather and
pin -sticking, but for eijven years I had not
iecii his face. It was this that determinc;d me
|(3 ni\c' an element of unconventionality to my
iisii by not telling my nephew I was coming.
|t was thrilling to picture the meeting of an
j|iini with a ne])hew who might fail to recog-
nise hf'r. I was not afraid of any embarrass-
iieiU on m\ own part. I remembered that
Wernon had inherited the IMofTat nose ; I
pioiild have that to guide me, and I would
|now it anywhere in Asia ; and I packed
Jp with my black silk a small thin flexible

ne. rather worn, to produce in case there

as any difficulty about my own identity. I
Jit that I could rely uptjn Vernon's power of

sociation when he should see it in my hand.

should have mentioned that when he was a

y X'ernon was an orphan.
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prevent my ic^etting off Jis soon as I intended
]\Iy black silk came home with a yoke — hi,:
that is trivial — and had to go back se\(r
times. 'Hien I had to wait for the fortnisjhi
ly meeting of the Dorcas Society, in order ii
s(ie that my resignation as president \\a^ ^
accepted with the pr()[)er amount of regret
and that Letitia Bray was not aj)pointe(l ii,
my place. Then I found that I could no;
de[)end U[)on the character of the people witl
whom I had placed my cat, and had to tine
another home for her. Then Mr. Gruletook
the measles, and, the vicar's wife ha\iiif;
neither time nor attention for anything but
the seventh daughter I have mentioned
there was nobody in ail LittU^hampton tn
look after him but me. He implored me not
to stiiy on his account, and if it had been
an ordinary curate I would have left him to
his fate and Letitia Bray ; but Mr. Grule \v;b
too valuable to me in the parish to be
allowed to run the risk of taking cold by
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suitable matrimony induced by the unneces-
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WJiited for the I )ccc;ml)cr Zt7V«;r Iloiir and
Sitiiday at Home. I had the back numbers
for two years, and I wanted these to complete
the sets. I had made up my mind to take
them out to my nephew as a little contribu-
tion to his stock of reading material. 1 had
an idea that in India i)eople were so much
out of the way of current literature of an\
sort that Vernon wouldn't notice the dates.
I added some socks, gloves, collars and ties,
and would have liked to make additions to
his wardrobe even n.ore useful in their
character ; but there are boundaries, when
one's nephew is grown up and one has not
seen him for eleven years, which a maiden
aunt can pass only in imagination.

In a journey to the Orient one is obliged
to accomplish a large part of the distance by
sea. While my own nautical experiences
had been limited, I had once ridden on a
switch-back in Brighton, and I knew I should
loathe the ocean. So I took my ticket over-
land as far as Brindisi. I wanted, besides, to

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sci: a little of ga\ France and sunny Italy.
I am now convinced that the mail route is
not a good one tor this [)ur[)ose. I knew
tVoin the time table when we had arri\-ed at
Taris. and as the train crawled around the city,
I saw one* lamp lit sti^'et and a lot of tall
(lark houses — no boulevards and no cafes, v\o
theatres or monuments. As we swept out of
il ai^viin I ventiu'ed to inquire of a i^entleman
ill the same compartment if that was the Seine
— that river we were passing — and he said it
was. I suppose it could not \ery well have
been any other stream, but one likes to l)e
(|uite certain of one's facts, especially of one's
geographical facts. Looking back, my im-
pressions of France do not seem to amount to
much. I have more vivid ones of Italy, but
ih(;y are not as poetic as I expected them to be.
They cluster round the railway restaurants,
and are bathed, as it were, in olive oil. They
are inextricably mixed up with the natural
wrath and indignation of the unprotected
unmarried lady of middle age at being in>pu-

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clcntly robl)ccl. A central fi^^ure in them is
that of an engaging j^arfon, young in years
but old in villainy, wh(j remarked ' Ccstfait !'
when I gave him a sovereign, having no
change, to pay for a glass of milk and a roll,
and when I expostulated pretended not to
understand and begged me to ' di^pcc/iery as
the train was going. I rather flatter myself
on my presence of mind on that occasion. I
did * di^pccher! but I took the sovereign with
me. Three times I sent that garfon back for
more change, and in the end he had to run
after the train to hand me the nineteen
francs through the window. I threw the
sovereign out to him, and I suppose it is my
duty to hope he got it ; but it fell among a
knot of disreputable-looking soldiers, and I
think it is not improbable that I was the
humble means of teaching one Italian waiter
a lesson. There were vineyards certainly,
and some pleasing old castles and cloisters,
the identical castles and cloisters that I re-
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pencil at school — very nicely I used to shade
ihem. The reality was not (jiiite so [)ictiir-
('S(iue, perhaps, as my drawing, but I was
prepared for that, or would have been if I
had thought of it. Something must be
allowed for the imagination, and for my part
1 always take works of art with a pinch of
salt. There were officers, too, at the various
stations, just such Italian officers in cocked
hats, and swords, and long cloaks as one
reads of in novels, but, also judging from
novels, I expected more from them in the
way of impertinent advances than I saw. In
works of fiction lady travellers through Italy
are always subjected to stares and smiles, and
sometimes undesirable attentions from these
dark-eyed, much-moustached young men ;
hut that I now believe a literary artifice.
None that I saw seemed in the least auda-
cious. There was the blue Adriatic certainly,
dotted with three-cornered white sails, but
there was also a large young man with a red
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shirt collar aiul a f|iiaiuit\' of hlack curls, who
smoked sc\'(.'ii ciLTiirs as Ioiilt 'is knittiniT-
luuxllcs one alter the other in in\' iiniiietliate
vicinity the whole tiiiu; this body of wati^r
was in view. I le seemed \'er)' much
wrapped up in himself, and when I touched
him on the arm -I was ohli'^cd to — and said.
' Xou fiimarc—s i7 I'o/is />/ii'if'- ' I ol)j(;ct to
tobacco,' he mere!)' looked at me ab-ient-
mindedK' and shook his head. There is
nothini^^ like the kind ol tobacco smoked in
sc;cond-class Italian railway carriages to
interlere with one's appreciation of the
scenerv ; and I reuret to find few of m\'
sentiment i about the Adriatic worth putting
on record.

I don't know why I should ask an already
satiated juiblic to absorb further details of an
r>astern voyage by P. and (). It is not that
details are not available : my diary is full of
them. I kei)t a diary, and wrote it up every
evening after the stewards had cleared the
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Bishop and clipping in the same ink-pot. I
recorded my impressions of the Bishop under
these circumstances, and I still remember the
feeling of guilt with which I said ' After you,
please,' when our pens clashed over the ink-
pot, and 1 was in the midst of putting down
the fact that it was easy to see he was a
colonial Bishop by his calves. I could not
get over the idea that I was committing a sin,
though I have never been able to find a
precedent for it and am still uncertain.

There is no use, for instance, in telling
you what I thought of the lady who occupied
my cabin with me— a widow, going out to
India for the second time. I was really
curious to know what could take a widow out
to India, for the second time, especially after
I found out, without the smallest difficulty, that
she was not interested in missions. But she
never gave me a reason that I considered
satisfactory. Her widowy effects, in dress,
were very successful indeed, but she used to
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wore ribbon, coqiiettishly twisted in her hair
at the back, which I thought flippant. I
used to sit and walk and play Halnia a great
deal with this widow, and helped to a very
considerable extent to keep her out of mis-
chief. I used to talk to her about Him,
about his last days and his complications and
his insurances and his little peculiarities, com-
ing up and sitting beside her in her quiet
corner of the hurricane deck whenever it
began to grow dark and the second officer
was off his watch. When the second officer
was there first, I joined them and led the con-
versation into this channel until he went away.
He was a mere boy, and she — well, she was a
widow, and widows ought to be sustained and
consoled, but not encouraged, in my opinion.
I became acquainted with a number of
people — in fact, I made a point of knowing
everybody. It is quite possible to do it, if
one only uses a little tact, and makes up
one's mind not to be too easily repelled by
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istic of English ))cm)|)1(; when they travel.
With the Bishop, for instance, I always in-
troduced the possibility of disestablishment
or the last distinguished convert to the
Church of Rome, or the wonderful way
Dissent has taken root in the colonies.
There were one or two colonels and their
wives on board who had a military way of
looking through their eye-glasses, which
made them more difficult of ap[)roach than
the other people, and with them I was
obliged to use a great deal of discretion in
selecting proper subjects for conversation.
They really did look very warlike even in
llcmnels and yellow shoes, so I began by
asking them, as they stood yawning at one
another behind the smoking-cabin, if they had
kept any account of the number of savages
they had killed in battle. It didn't seem
that they had ; in fact, it presently appeared,
greatly to my approbation, that they had
become colonels without having gone to war
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u.is possible, and I congratulated them very
warmly. I said that I wished all colonels
and other military officers could say as
much, but I feared there were few with
records like theirs. I really felt my enthu-
siasm, but it seemed to fail to move them.
So I changed the subject to military balls
and the expenses of mess, and told them
how I sympathised with the unfortunate
subalterns who had to contribute. That, I
remember, was the successful note with them.

They looked at each other reproachfully
and said it was a shame that I should be
kept standing there, and immediately hurried
off in different directions to find my chair.

There was a young A. D.C. to somebody on
board, a nice looking boy with very pretty
mafiners. I used to adapt myself to him, too,
talking to him pleasantly about his duties
and proposing, whenever I found him half-
dozing in his chair, with his hat tilted over
his eyes, that we should have a game of deck
([Lioits together. These games of ours used

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to attract a great deal of attention among th
other young men, who would gather round
the bucket and applaud. Occasionally m\
partner would send a quoit straight at them.
He was a very playful fellow.

There is a great deal too much indolence
on board ship, and I used to try to stir
people up. I would invite them, one after
the other, to walk up and down the quarter-
deck with me. I succeeded with persever-
ance, but they were very apathetic. I used to
go cheerfully up to the Captain every morning
and ask him what the weather was likely to
be, and if it was probable that we should sec
any flying-fish before night. I wasn't really
very much interested either in the weather
or the flying-fish — Providence arranges these
things and not sea-captains — but it is only
considerate to talk to people about matters
with which they are likely to be familiar.

One of my acquaintances was a literary
man. I heard almost the first day I was
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h )arcl, and I at once determined that no
power on earth should induce me to forego
the opportunity of speaking to him. He was
Mr. Henry Hammerard; I dare say you are
as familiar with the name as I was. I found
Mr. Hammerard in a remote corner of the
deck in a long chair, wrapped up to his eyes
ill rugs, and apparently asleep. A lemon and
a glass containing a little brandy and water
stood on the deck near him, and his right
hand hung inertly at his side. It was fat and
red and hairy, not the kind of hand I admire,
but I looked at it with due respect, for it was
a hand in the habit of wielding that which is
mightier than the sword. As I said, he was
ap[)arent'ly asleep, but I had already been
long enough on board the Oriental to learn
that one should never conclude that a person
is sleeping merely because his eyes are shut.
If I had gone on that principle, I should have
had no conversation at all upon the voyage.
I paused near him, but his eyes remained
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said, 'Mr. Hcimmerard ! ' As I expected,
they opened at once. I had decided on
my opeij^ng sentence in the cabin as I was
doing my hair.

'Mr. Hammerard,' I said, 'though j)er-
sonally unknown to you, I have felt that I
must take the opportunity of telh'ng you how
much I admire your — your reputation.'

I coukl not properly say his books,
because for the time being I was unable to
remember the names of any of them. After
all, it was quite proper, and not in the least
familiar, to admire a gentleman's reputation.
I was particularly anxious to avoid the
appearance of any familiarity. Mr. Hammer-
ard looked gratified, and his features relaxed
into a faint smile. ' You are vx'ry good,' he
said, 'you will excuse my — my not getting
up,' and he closed his eyes again.

' Please don't mention it,' I begged him.
' I know what it is. One is not quite sure
whether it is the roll or the pitch or the
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I)iit it is ([uite j)ossiblc to conquer it. I have
C()n([uerecl it. Walking about is the best
thing, and wilh'ng. Come now, don't you
think you could walk about a little ? '

'Oh thanks, I have con(|uered it,' Mr.
llaiiimerard replied hastily. 'I — 1 am
thinking of going down to luncheon.'

' I don't think you have,' 1 returned ;
' you look as if you might have a relapse.
'\\'\ willing. Is your will as strong as your
other mental parts, Mr. Hammerard ?'

' Yes, I believe so — no — really madam, I
cannot possibly tell.'

' This would be an excellent test, and the
result would be interesting not only to your-
s(;ir but to the world,' I suggested. ' Fix
vour willinii^ faculties on an intention to be,
in ten minutes, perfectly well.'

Mr. Hammerard did not reply. ' I have
no other mental parts which are likely to dis-
tinguish me,' I continued, ' but my own will
is a very strong one. I will assist you,' and
I looked at him fixedly, willing his immediate

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recovery with all my might. Presently he
broke the current, so to speak, by putting out
his hand for the brandy and water, and I felt
at liberty to resume the conversation.

' One meets literary people so seldom,' 1
said, * that it is a very great pleasure to talk
with them. It makes something to remember
afterwards,' I added, a little shyly.

'Yes?' replied Mr. Hammerard. He
seemed approaching a state of apathy, and
I determined to rouse him.

' Now, I have never read your books — our
book club does not happen to contain them —
but if ever I do it will be with twice the
interest I otherwise should. Of course I
don't mean to say that they wouldn't be
extTemely interesting in any case, but — I'm

sure you must understand '

' Oh, yes ! But I wouldn't advise you to
read them, madam. They're not books for
ladies.'

I rose from my seat immediately. There
are certain subjects upon which I feel strongly.

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23

aiicl one of them is the tendency of modern
tktion. I did my best to speak cahnly, but
my words trembled with indignation. ' Oh,
indeed ! Really ! Then of course I won't,

however much You need not advise me,

thank you. I suppose you belong to the j'eai-
istic school, Mr. Hammerard. You believe
in writing immoral novels to raise the tone of
public morality. I must say I do not agree
with you. And I quite understand why it is
that your works are not in our book club.
But I wish you had mentionc^d it before.'

'So do I,' said Mr. Hammerard, drawing
his rug up to his eyes as I turned to go. I
was very deeply annoyed and could not
possibly carry out my intention of asking him
how many hours a day he spent in literary
composition, and whether he wrote best in
the morning or afternoon, and if his mother
had had literary tastes, and what the recollec-
tions of his childhood were. One ought not
to wish to know these things about people
who write improper novels, and in the re-

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(•

vulsion of my feelings Mr. HammcM'ard might
have been an anonymity for all I caretl
You may imagine my reh*(.'f when one of the
other passengers remarked to me later in th
day, ' I saw you talking to our distinguished
author this morning. Did you tackle him
about his books }'

I felt myself blushing. * Certainly not,' 1
said, perhaps a little haughtily.

'They ai'e rather dry,' continued the per-
son who knew. ' Chiefly Mongolian histories,
I believe ; and then that last little thing of
his in seven volumes — his " Handbook of the
Aryan Dynasties " — how can the travelling
public be expected to know anything about
that ? '

I should have liked very much to apolo-
gise to Mr. Hammerard after that, especially
as I might have told him that an uncle of
my mother's wrote a book on his travels in
China, which I would have been very pleased
to lend him. I would have been glad to know
what he thought of literature as a pursuit for

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'5

l.Hlics, too, and I had a manuscript with me

at the time which I might have o-<,t his opinion
"H. IJutwc had arrived at I^omhay and were
.'t the end of our voya,ge before another
opportunity i)resented itself.

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CHAPTKR 11

I MAY Jis well confess in the beginnini; that
Boinbiiy was a deep, keen, and bitter dis-
appointment to me. I cannot now say quite
what I expected, but it was something diffcir-
ent — quite different. To begin with, I natu-
rally looked for a coral strand — and there was
a stone es[)lanad(;. My imagination had pic-
tured a low sandy shore with a line of palm
trees against the sky — this I acknowledge to
be unreasonable — and I saw a mass of city
buildings picked out with the masts of ships.
Where I expected lordly temples I found a
University and a Yacht Club, and instead
of the dignified Brahmins, with flowing
white robes, who had walked in procession
through my dreams, I observed a large num-
ber of fat, intelligent-looking brown gende-

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27

men buttoned up to their chins in tii^ht black
coats and trousers, vvc.'aring the only thing
ill millinery uglier than an Englishman's silk
hilt — conical in shape, paintc:d black and
\arnished, and set so far back on their heads
that it was a simple marvel how it stayed
on. The complication these g(MUlemen pre-
sented, when they wore wreaths of yellow
marigolds round their necks, spoke excellent
English, and carried gloves and uml)rellas,
was a shock to me. I had an expcri(Mice on
arriving, however, which temporarily blotted
out all my earlier Eastern im[)ressions, and
which I cannot refer to even now without
singular sensations. It is only at great ex-
pense to my feelings, and out of a desire to
withhold nothing, that I have induced my-
self to consent to include it in my narrative.

As I stepped off the steam launch with
my roll-up and my sun-umbrella and my two
small bags — I was the last to leave it — a
gentleman wearing an anxious expression,
pale and narrow shouldered, with a stoop and

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sp(!Ct.'icl(^s, rushed up lo nu> so impetuously
as nearly to knock mv, o\-er into the \vat(T.
He scn'zed the roll-up and both the bags, and
before I had time to in([uire how he had
found out that I was coming — the Moffat
nos(! had undergone a climatic chanm-, but
I knew at once that it was my nephew — he
had im[)rinted a salute upon my cheek. It
was such a salute as a nephew might very
properly offer to an aunt, but the circum-
stances were extremely ])ublic, and I would
have drawn back if I could haxc done so
without ste|)|)ino: into the ocean.

' I ani indexed pleased to see you ! ' he re-
marked, with som(!what unnecessary ner-
vousnc;ss. 'To think of its being elex'en
years since 1 k:ft \()U in I'^ngland ! Mow
the tim« h\s gone ! '

'It has, indeed!' I responded, allowing
him to seize m\' arm and help me up the
steps.

' lUit you are just the same as ever!' he
continued. ' Do you fmd me much changed ? '

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29

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look as if you wanted beef tea and properly
nourishing food, and I intend to see that
you get it. It was thoughtful of you to come
to meet me= — I didn't expect you in the very
least ! I didn't even think you knew I was
coming ! '

* You didn't write,' he said reproachfully,
' but John did.'

'John always was interfering!' I had
never liked Vernon's brother John.

* And as I've been transferred to Bombay
it was the simplest thing in the world for me
to drive down to meet you. I was very
nearly late, though ; my memory is getting so
bad ! '

' Your memory ! ' I said with some aspe-
rity, for I never will put up with airs of that
sort in people of my nephew's age. * Rubbish !
you didn't take after our family in that re-
spect, but I've no doubt your memory is as
good as it ever was ! '

IVIy nephew looked at me attentively for

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31

a moment and sighed, ' They wrote me that
you were quite bett^^r ! ' he said.

' So I am — perfectly well. Those nervous
attacks of mine never last long.'

He did not answer, only looked at me
fixedly from behind his spectacles in a way
which made me feel uncomfortable. I had
not anticipated the slightest embarrassment
in meeting Vernon, but I began to experience
it.

' Well,' I said pleasantly, as we got into a
carriage driven by a black in ., red coat and
a white turban and bare feet, with another
one standing up and clinging on behind. ' I
expect we shall have to make accjuaintance
all over again, you and I.' I really felt that
it would be so.

' We were together so little — before,' he
replied, ' that I fear it may indeed be neces-
sary ! '

' Oh, I dare say it won't take long ! But I
don't know about our being together so little
in the old days ! Don't you remember

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t II

jilways spending your vacations with mc ?
Dear me, I can hear you shimming through
the house as if it were yesterday ! '

Vernon again remained silent, but he took
off his spectacles and looked the other way —
I fancied, to conceal his emlxirrassment. I
began to feel truly anxious Jibout my nephew.

* We are going to a hotel at present,' he
remarked. * I have engaged rooms there for
a month. I have my eye on a house at
Malabar Hill overlooking the harbour— a nice;
([uiet situation,' and as we drove to the hotel
I avoided reminiscences of all kinds, and
(juestioned him entirely about the public
buildings and the blacks.

' Do you not remember ever to have seen
it before ? ' he asked me earnestly.

' In [)ictures you mean ! No, nothing
really like it. Except, of course, the photo-
graphs you sent home when you first came
out ! '

He sicrhed ai^aln. ' Well, I'm sure it's .i
comfort that you know me ! ' he said, and once

VERNON'S AUNT 33

more relapsed into silence. My nephew
had become much less entertaining than
formerly, but I did not like to say so. It
might be due to illness. We arrived at the
hotel, which had a wide verandah and shops
all round below, and Vernon took me upstairs
to the rooms he had engaged. The place
was teeming with blacks, and I met one
coming out of my bedroom with an armful of
pillows. I immediately went back to the
sitting-room and informed Vernon.

' What business has he in there ? ' I de-
manded. * Send him away, please, and ring
for the housemaid.'

Vernon looked at me sternly.
'I'm afraid this is an affectation,' he said.
'You must know there are no housemaids here.
That is Pedro, a very good Portuguese boy
indeed, and he will see to everything for you.
I will leave you now, as I am anxious to get
the mail. Tiffin is at two.' He then went
away and left me to my sensations. They
were singular — my nephew had turned out

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SO differently from what I expected. I
accounted for it to myself in various ways,
the most alarming of which was an idea

MET ONE COMING OUT OF MY HEDROOM.

which continued to haunt me, that he had
become a Mahomedan. If that proved to bti
the case, I determined to return to England
at once. Pedro was still in the bedroom,

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beating pillows and walking about flicking
the dust off the furniture with a cloth — I
made up my mind that I would very soon
cure him of that trick — so to calm myself I
began to unpack a few things in the sitting-
room. Where Vernon had picked up those
imperative ways puzzled me more than any-
thing. I may as well say here that the
commanding manner in other people is
something I am not accustomed to. I found
my alpaca a good deal crushed, and was in
the act of shaking it out when I heard an
excited step at the door and a knock — one of
those knocks which give upon your nerves,
as the French say. I called out ' Come in ! '
and the door opened to disclose Vernon with
his hat on the side of his head, and every
mark of haste and demoralisation. He
carried an open letter in his hand, and
seemed disposed to hesitate upon the thres-
hold. But he was making a draught, so I told
him to come in at once and shut the door.
' What is the matter ? ' I asked ; ' are you

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THE DOOR OPENED.

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VERNON'S AUNT

37

in any difficulty ? If so. as I used to tell
you when you were a good deal younger
than you are now, it is much better to speak
out and have done with it.'

Vernon wiped the perspiration from his
brow, and did as he was told. ' I am indeed
in a difficulty,' he said, looking from me to
the letter and back again to me.

The solution of the mystery flashed upon
me in the twentieth part of a second. My
nephew had a wife, whose existence he was
anxious to conceal, and who now objected to
my coming out to keep house for him !

' Vernon ! ' said I sternly, ' tell the truth
at once ! Have you been getting married '^ '

'Oh Lord!' said my nephew, leaning
back on the sofa and covering the bald spot
on the back of his head with his hand. I
could see that behind his spectacles his eyes
were very wild. He paused for a moment,
looked at me steadily, and then seemed to
collect himself ' In any case,' he said, ' the
best plan will be to rehearse it to you from

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38

VERNON'S AUNT

the beginning. If I am right, it may help
your memory ; if I am wrong, it can do no
harm.'

' No riddles or conundrums, please,' I
replied — ' the simple truth.'

'OH lord!' said my nephlw.

' Eleven years ago I married,' said
Vernon, watching me steadily, 'a lady older
than myself, by the name of White. She
was not prepossessing, but -she had singular

VEJ^NON'S AUNT 39

intelligence. I expected when I married her
that she would relieve me of a great deal of
the burden of my official reports.'

* You never could spell ! ' I interrupted.
' But go on. I am still prepared to assist you
in that direction.'

* Sii/l prepared,' he repeated anxiously.
' Are you beginning to remember } '

Vernon had certainly been too long in
the country. ' I remember more than you
give me credit for,' I replied tersely. ' Go on ! '

' Unfortunately, three months after our
marriage my wife exposed herself impru-
dently, and had a sunstroke. It made her
perfectly useless to give any assistance in my
official labours, and it developed in her a
curious dislike to me. She grew worse and
worse, and finally her mind became com-
pletely unhinged and she lost her memory.
Under these trying circumstances, I took her
home to England and left her there. She
has recently written to me that she wished to
come out again, and as my relatives have

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i

been reporting her as com[)letcly restored,
and my official work has lately much
increased, I was induced to give my consent.
And I was expecting her by the steamer
that brought you ! '

' I don't wonder at your embarrassment at
meeting me instead. It grows clear to me
now ! Your expecting me was but a [)re-
tence, invented at the spur of the moment !
I hieiu John hadn't written ! Yet I thought
1 had brought you up to speak the truth, my
boy! '

' If you interrupt me again, madam, I
shall go raving mad.'

I closed my lips firmly, and bowed. My
nephew was evidently unwell, and I deter-
mined to control myself — :it least, until he
should be better.

' I have just received by the mail which
brought you, this letter, and in it John says :
" I am sorry to inform you that your wife has
had a bad turn at the last moment, and that
all the good effects of absence from you in a

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41

noii-ofiicial atniosphcTC seem to be undone.
She is perfectly sensible Jibout other things,
but she has again fallen a victim to her
former antipathy to you personally and to
curious aberrations of memory, and at the
present writing nothing will induce her to
start. Her boxes are all packed and her
bonnet actually on. The cab is at the door
to take her to the station, and it is quite
possible that she may change her mind at
the last moment and go ; but I write just in
time to catch the mail to explain to you how
matters stand, so that you need not be
unnecessarily anxious should she fail to
appear." '

As my nephew read, I began to feel a
certain amount of sympathy for him. His
position was really an unfortunate one. His
deceitful conduct had brought its own punish-
ment, and I determined not to be hard upon
him.

' I can only say,' I replied, ' that it ought
to be a warning to you against allowing any

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official consideration to enter into your choice
of a partner for life, though I am afraid the
warning will be more useful now to other
people. But as things are, it seems to me
that it is just as well for )ou that it is I who
came by the steamer, and not your wife.'

My nephew groaned. ' I used to have
the same difficulty in convincing you before,'
he sa! ^ unhappily. * Unfortunate woman,
you are my wife.'

I saw that his mind had given way to the
climate, and my own madness in coming out
to a nephew who had lived eleven years in
India, without first ascertaining his continued
sanity, flashed upon me. But it was a trying
moment, and the only thing I could think of
to say was that I could not possibly be his
wife, since ! was his aunt. Vernon stared at
me helplessly. ' You used to say you were
my grandmother — there is no reason why
you should not now say you are my aunt.'

All at once a suspicion of the terrible
truth came upon me. I am not a fainting

VERNON'S AUNT 43

character, but I must own to a certain dizzi-
ness as I looked for Vernon's mole — a prom-
inent particular excrescence above his left eye-
brow, which had somehow never occurred to
me before.

' It is not there ! ' I exclaimed, and covered
my face with my hands. I was, at that
moment, nearer to the borders of hysteria
than I have ever been before or since.

' What is not there } '

' Your mole — the mole on my nephew's
forehead. You cannot be he ? '

' I wish there were as much reason to
believe that you cannot be she,' he returned
with apathy. ' .1 have no mole. I never had
any mole. But it is like you to say I had
one. You used to declare that I squinted,
and wore a wig ! *

At these words the situation dawned upon
me in all its unconventionality, if that is not
too strong a term, and I received an impres-
sion of the possible consequences of wanting
to surprise people that has never left me.

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Without saying anything, I rose to my feet
and began repacking my boxes. I felt that
I would rather write my explanation, and re-
ceive his apology in the same way. I would
repack, and quietly go downstairs and ask
the hotel clerk for other rooms. To my
horror the gentleman who was not my nephew
rose to his feet also, and locked the door,
putting the key in his pocket.

* Sir,' I said, * you may as well understand
at once that I am not your demented wife —
poor creature! I, also, have been the victim
of a mistake. I took you for my nephew,
whom I have not seen for eleven years and
whom I have come out to visit. ]\Iy name is
Lavinia Moffat. I have no desire, however,
to know what yours is. I only ask that you
lea\'e this apartment immediately — it is no
place for you under the circumstances.'

He looked at me undecidedly, but he did
not move. ' I hope devoutly that what you
say may be true,' he remarked, ' but you see
my position. You are extremely like my

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45

wife — Mrs. James W. Jamieson — in feature,
and you behave precisely as I should c;.\|)('ct

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her to do under a return of her old malady.
In which case, it is my bounden duty to see

46 VERNON'S AUNT

that you remain here and come to no harm.
Besides, if I allow you your liberty now, who
knows what your disordered imagination may
express regarding me personally ? '

He replaced the letter in his pocket,
crossed his hands on the top of his stick, and
looked at me fixedly. We had both become
calmer.

* I myself am convinced that you are the
lady I married,' said Mr. James W. Jamieson.
' It is for you to uproot that conviction.*

' I assure you that before stepping ashore
I never laid eyes on you ! ' I exclaimed. The
circumstances did not permit the choice of
elegant forms of speech.

He only looked incredulous.

I spread out my two hands before him.
' Where is my wedding-ring ? ' I cried.

' You might easily have thrown it into the
ocean,' said Mr. Jamieson.

• I don't know anyone in Bombay '

i ' You never did.'

' Sir, if you do not at once unlock that door

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47

and permit me — Lavinia Moffat, of Little-
Hampton, Sussex — to go downstairs and find
out when the first train goes to Rajabad,
North-West Provinces, I will put my head out
of the window and call aloud that I am being
forcibly detained here by James W. Jamieson,
who insults me by the statement that I have
been married to him for eleven years. Here
is my handkerchief,' I added, with an inspira-
tion, ' you can see it is marked " L. M." '

He waved the handkerchief aside. ' That
might be anything,' he said, looking at the
monogram, but he appeared to meditate.

' I would not put my head out of the
window, if I were you,' he said. ' It would
be so very public'

' That is what I want it to be,' I replied,
with some heat, for I was beginning to lose
patience.

' You mentioned Littlehampton, Sussex,*
said Mr. Jamieson slowly. * Can you tell
me the name of the High Sheriff of
Sussex ? '

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li'

' Mr. Shoreley Shore ! ' I replied
promptly.

' Right. Can you mention any three of
the leading county families ? '

' A dozen, if you like. The Tyke-
Symonds, the Belshammers, Sir Jacob Ezra,
those Americans who have taken Lord
Lambley's place '

'That will do. How does Littlehampton
lie with reference to the railways and what
are its chief features ? '

' Five miles from the station. The main
street is crooked at one end, and divides into
two at the other to embrace the market-
place. Its chief features are the church, the
vicarage, Holly Cottage — my own house —
Mrs. Dodd's shop for fancy goods and post
office combined, Jenkins and Carters', the
drapers' shop '

* Thank you. Can you tell me the name
of the leading doctor ? '

* Jobson.*

' Jobson — yes, quite correct. I once

VERNON'S AUNT 49

spent several weeks in Littlehampton,
madam, and, although I fail to remember
Mrs. Dodd or the draper, I find that in other
respects your account of the place is entirely
accurate. My wife has never visited the
locality. I therefore withdraw my statement
that you are Mrs. Jamieson. I feel that I
ought to offer you some reparation for the
inconvenience I have caused you '

* You might unlock the door and go,' I
suggested.

* But you see how it was. On the
whole, I am relieved to find that I am
wrong,' said Mr. Jamieson, looking at me
earnestly. ' Things might have been worse
— much worse,' he went on, somewhat am-
biguously, * but the resemblance is very
striking. However, your acquaintance with
Littlehampton is conclusive. I apologise, I
am sure. And if there is anything I can
do to make your stay in Bombay more inter-
esting, I hope you will command me.'

* I have already commanded you, sir, to

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render me the only service in your power,'
said I — rather finely I think, considering the
state of my feelings.

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And that is-

I pointed to the door, and Mr. Jamieson
seemed to realise that I wished to be alone.

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51

He picked up his hat, and offered me the
hand which he had chamed me with havintr
accepted eleven years before. But I was
putting my head out of the window.

* I will then say good-morning, madam,'

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he said ; * I hope there is no ill-feeling. It
is by the merest accident, after all, that you
are not Mrs. Jamieson. Perhaps we had
better not speak of this. I should not like
it to get about in — ah — official circles.'

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< Hi — you!' I shouted down into the
street, iuid in an instant I was alone with my
emotions.

Two hours later I despatched the accom-
panying telegram to Vernon Hawkins.

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53

CHAPTER III

My journey to Rajabad was not in any way
remarkable, except for the time it took. It
took an enormous amount of time — two days
— to a very short distance on the map. This
had its advantages ; one had so many more
favourable opportunities for observation than
are to be obtained in an ordinary English
train, that seems to be despatched for the
mere purpose of getting from one place to
another. As we passed through the country
I could look out of the window and see the
whole of rural India slowly gyrating round a
palm tree on the horizon. I could examine
the architectural details of the small temples
made of mud and whitewashed, with an in-
ferior kind of decoration, apparently in pink
or yellow sugar, round the base of their domes,

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that cropped up out of the ground hen; and
th(*rc as wc vvc;nt by. I could count th(! tail
feathers of the bluejays that sat on the tele-
graj)h lines, and observe the curious configura-
tion of the humped Indian cows that tried in
vain to induce us to keep up with them. I
was enabled to make a fair estimate of the
jjopulation of the innumerabk? little villages
we passed, odds and ends of brown thatched
huts up to their ears in green millet and
yellow wheat, and I usually counted three
old women, five babies, four goats, and two
pariah dogs. When we stopped we stopped
at small whitewashed stations with strange;
names staring through the sunlight in black
painted letters, and the platform was full of
native people in the most original clothes
of the most variegated colours, all talking
together and running in every direction at
once. I never saw such excitement or such
patterns. Stripes were the most popular —
purple and yellow, green and yellow, black
and yellow — and I saw satin coats without

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sleeves embroidered in gold, in connection
with the most dirty and disreputable white
cotton neth('r jj^arments of (extremely peculiar
cut. The crowd consisted almost altog(ith(;r
of men, and amongst them I noticed some
wearincf turbans like beer-kee^s, and lonij
beards, while others were less dignified but
more jaunty in little round embroidered caps
that would make lovely work-baskets with a
bit of silesia to stiffen them and a handle and
a bow at one side, and moustaches. But
whether it was cap or turban, beard or
moustache, the head that wore it was vvagging
as if nothing would ever stop it, in the course
of a conversation addressed to nobody in
particular and about nothing that I could find
out, for the train moved on after perhaps
three people had come aboard as a rule,
leaving the rest of the multitude still running
round and calling each other names. Not
that there was not abundance of time for
everybody to get comfortably into the
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arrival and our departure they might have
taken tickets for anywhere with explanations
all along the route, they might have for-
I gotten something and gone home to fetch it,

they might have bidden farewell to evcTy
relative they had on earth six times over.
There was really no occasion for hurry.
After the train had lain stretching and yawn-
ing in the sun beside the station for a while,
a bell rang, and the babel immediately grew
louder and more undecided than ever. Time
went on, and as soon as w(* had well for-
gotten the first bell, another rang, and the
babel became a turmoil. In the midst of it a
fat man with a coat that had once been white,
and a complexion to match, with buttons,
and an air of authority, would issue forth
from the telegraph office or the refreshment
room and walk up and down the platform
to ascertain, apparently, whether the train
had sufficiently recovered from its fatigue to
proceed further. Then the three passengers
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up their minds to change their carriages, and
the multitude would unite in helping them
out with their bacrsand bundles. At this, the
fat gentleman in buttons would become very
angry, and it would suddenly appear that we
were in a tremendous hurry, and the three
passengers would be hustled into the carriage
of their final selection without ceremony and
the door shut tight upon them. Then the
gentleman in buttons would once more pro-
menade authoritatively up and down, wave
his hand at the engine, and light a cigar as we
crawled away from him. After which, if we
were not obliged to go back for anything, we
usually rushed along at the rate of at least
fifteen miles an hour until we came to th(!
next station on the time table. It was not
always entirely heathen and unpronounceable ;
sometimes it was a place one knew the name
of, like Ahmedabad or Ajmere, and then the
vari-coloured native crowd on the platform
would be interspersed with a very few Eng-
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in sailor hats and cotton blouses and serge
skirts — it is extraordinary the temerity with
which women over forty in India will wear
sailor hats and cotton blouses — a man or two
in riding things, and a soldier in uniform,
perhaps, leading a vicious-looking white bull-
dog by a string. I did not find any of these
people conversational when they happened
to get into my carriage. I could get them to
tell me nothing about India. One lady did not
even know the population of the North-West
Provinces or the meanings of the marks on
the people's foreheads. I asked her if the
upper classes were not cultured and educated,
and she said she supposed so ; but she ad-
mitted that she never invited any natives to
her house. When I pressed her for the
reason she said — somewhat weakly, I thought
— that her husband would.. 't allow her to have
anything to do with them ; and when I re-
marked that he was probably prejudiced, she
said no, that he was exactly like everybody
else's husband. And when three very

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respectfibk^-looking Indian gentlemen got into
the carriage, she left it and went into \.\\v.
ladies' compartment, where there were alread\
four other women, an ayah, and two babies.

To my disappointment, none of the
Indian gentlemen spoke English. Such an
opportunity for acquiring information about
the country as was presented then never
reoccurred — that is to say, if they had spoken
English. But they could only bow and
smile in answer to my inquiries, and this
they did with great unanimity, as if I had
s[)oken to them all at once. It was a great
pity, there were so many things I should
have liked to discuss with them — child mar-
riage, the Hindoo widow question, and the
opium trade, for instance ; but there was no
helping it. I had to be content with the
bows and the smiles. They were so very
polite that I confess I felt a little annoyed
when, after buying some sticky brown pan-
cakes from a man who carried them about
on a flat wicker tray, they pinned a sheet

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across a corner of the carriage and got
behind it to eat them, as I have reason to
believe that it v^as done solely on my |

account. I had not the slightest desire to
interfere with them in any way, and it would
have been an innocent pleasure, surely, to
see three Indian gentlemen at a meal. But
they did not seem to wish it, and, with every
desire to treat these people as friends and
equals, I simply fumed on the other side of
that sheet.

Talking of meals, I ought not to omit
that special advantage of railway travelling
in India— one is allowed a reasonable time
to order them, to eat them, and to pay for
them. They seemed to me to occur about
every half-hour during the day — tea and
toast to begin with, then breakfast, then
luncheon, in the middle of the afternoon a
cup of tea, and then dinner at any time
between seven and nine that a big station
happened to be convenient. It was quite
sociable and pleasant ; the train rolled into

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the station, and we all trooped out past the
rose bushes of the station-house garden, and
the stalls where they sold cheap novels or
carved wood or brass bowls or pt:acock
feather fans, to the refreshment room, where
the table always had flowers on it and the
native waiters wer* inordinately grateful for
twopence. The eastern salaam is very beau-
tiful, and for a time I thought the feeling of
gracious superiority it imparted cheap at
twopence. Later, I concluded that one could
spend one's entire income just as easily in
twopences as in any other way, and that a
billionaire could do it in the course of a brief
journey through India without exhausting
the supply of salaams available. Humility is
cheap enough in the Oriental individual, but
in the aggregate it has to be taken seriously.
I discovered just before arriving at Raja-
bad, however, that things are not always
what they seem in Indian railway restaurants.
If I had known what I found out at Jimini-
pore, I would have supported existence the

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whole way from Bombay on oatmetal biscuits
and soda-water varied by a little quinine.
We had stopped at Jiminipore, and I was
conversing with a young man who seemed
more communicative than the usual Anglo-
Indian. Later on it appeared that he was a
traveller for a Calcutta jewellery- firm, but
that, of course, did not affect his value as a
source of information, while it made him, I
sup[)ose, even more respectful in his manner
than he would otherwise have been. He had
been complaining a good deal about being
obliged to live in India, saying, among other
reckless things, that he would give a year of
his present existence for a week in Bays-
water or Putney, and I had been rebuking
him to the best of my ability. Nothing is
more annoying in India than the persistence
with which people lament their fate in living
there, and shut their eyes to the blessings,
not to say the luxuries, which they enjoy. I
had been speaking very plainly to this young
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* You certainly cannot complain of your
food,' I remarked, as we began dinner.
' Better soup than this I have never tasted in
my own house in England.'

' Oh, it tastes all right,' responded the
young man, ' and I dare say it doesn't kill
many people before they get used to it.'

Instinctively I lowered the s[)0()nful at
my lips. 'What is the matter with it.'^' I
demanded.

' Oh, I guess it would be all right if it
weren't for the baccilly.'

' Baccilli ! ' said I, replacing my spoonful.

'That's what I said, madam — baccilly.
If you just look at it you'll find it's swarming
with baccilly, though most of them are dead,
having been boiled — and there's any amount
of invisible ones.'

'Then why do you eat it?' I inquired,
allowing the waiter to take away my plate.

' I've been vaccinated,' he replied, oracu-
larly. ' There isn't any kind of baccilly that
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madam, if you apply, but it's very uncom-
fortable while it's takin'.*

I did not notice until I had finished my
fish, which was particularly nice, that he had
refused it.

• You don't seem to care for fish,' I

remarked.

• No,' he said, but his manner excited my
suspicions.

• Would you mind telling me why ? '

• I'd rather not, madam. You have just
been assisted to fish. I'd rather you didn't
ask me '

• But I insist on knowing.'

'Well, madam, all I can say is, don't
blame me. The fact is, I don't mind bacilly
in any form, but I can't stand dead Hindoo.'

' Dead Hindoo I '

*Yes, madam, dead and in the sacred
river till they're gamey enough for this par-
ticular kind of fish to really enjoy. I draw
the line there.'

I might have told that Calcutta commercial

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traveller that if he had given me this informa-
tion earlier, he would have been remembered
in my will. As it was, I kept silence.
There was absolutely nothing to be done.

* I t/iink you'll find this all right, madam,'
the young man said, helping himself to mut-
ton, ' but I wouldn't recommend the beans.
They say they turn 'em that nice green colour
with arsenic'

I took some mutton, but failed to enjoy
it. Nothing could obliterate the memory of
the fish. When the next course! came I de-
cided of my own accord that no one could
possibly know what had gone into it, and re-
frained ; but there was a simple rice pudding,
and I helped myself plentifully.

* There cant be any harm in this,' I said
to the young man, who was eating plum tart
instead.

* Glad you think so, madam,' said he.
* In this country we believe that rice puddings
spell germs, which is only a scientific term
for bacilly.*

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• They come from the cow that supplies
the milk; he went on, seeing me look
startled. ' I don't want to spoil your appetite,
madam, but 1 ought to tell you that the cows

in this country are literally full of germs '

I don't know what facts I might have
elicited from him about the cheese and the
dessert, but at this point I paid my bill and
went back to my seat. He seemed to be a
well-informed young man, but I was not
entirely sorry when I saw him get into the
smoking carriage after dinner. He was
really rather vulgar, and I have never since
felt any confidence in addressing young men
in railway restaurants whom I have reason to
suspect of being in the jewellery line.

In the course of time and before the
beginning of eternity we arrived at Rajabad.
I need not have been so cautious about get-
ting out of the carriage and looking well
about me, and determining not to so much
as shake hands with any gentleman before
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on his forehead — my nephew was not there.
Not a person with a white skin was to be
seen anywhere, and I walked up and down
the platform three times, with an eye on all
points of the com[)ass. So far as I could
observe, Rajabad was a small station-house
and a name, with two water-carriers and five
coolies, every individual one of whom was
sitting upon my lugg^ige with a view to
establishing the fact that he had brought it
out of the carriage. Around the station-
house stretched an expanse of sun-lit deso-
lation with two or three roads struggling
through it in various directions, and here and
there a patch of jungh; or a peepul tree.
Knowing, as I did, that I was in India, ni)-
feeling was that I would not venture off the
platform alone for anything the world could
give me — and it would obviously be necessary
to get to a town of some sort before night,
for Rajabad offered no accommodation to a
maiden lady from England but a dusty bench
and a telegraph office. The telegraph office

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suggested somebody who ccjuld s|)eak T'liglish,
and I opened the door and went in. The
room was dark and silent, and upon two
chairs a young native clerk slept peacefully.

SITTING UPON MY LUGGAGE.

The train having come and gone, his work
for the day was probably accomplished. I
would have had no hesitation in waking
him, but he was a particularly plump young

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native clerk, and he had preposterously little
on. Ikisides, there seemed to be no a\ailal)l(!
means of arousing him except l)y pinching
him ; and I beg you to picture the insuper-
able difficulty of pinching an unconscious
young Indian gentleman in such undeniable
di'skabilid felt by a maiden lady from England
travelling alone, and unable to depend upon
his knowing her language. I determined to
wait with what [)atience I had left until he
should wake up of his own accord, and
walked out on the |)latform again, feeling
excessively annoyed at my ne])hew. In the
first place, he had allowed himself to be per-
sonated by a would-be bigamist, and in the
second he had abandoned his only living
female relative to the wild beasts of India
without any other protection than a sun-
umbrella. It was excessively unfeeling.

Suddenly my attention was attracted by
a dark spot in the distance upon the road. It
was moving, moving rapidly, in the direction
ot the station. As it came nearer it looked

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like an animated barn, and it had ai)proached
within a quarter of a mile before I could be
certain that it belonged to the animal king-
dom. Then in the twinkling of an eye my
worst fears were realised. I saw that the
creature had four large unwieldy legs, two
great Happing ears, and a trunk — that it was,
in a word, an elephant, and that it was travel-
ling toward me with a momentum of which I
never thought an elephant capable. As I
look back my Oriental experiences seem to
crystallise in.o the awful moment when I
awaited the onslaught of that formidable
beast. Two alternatives presented them-
selves to me, either to lly for shelter into
the telegraph office, or to open m/ sun-
umbrella in the face of the advancing animal
with a view to impartinnf some of mv own
terror to him, but . was incapable of doing
either — I was frozen to the spot. My whole
life did not pass in review before me, as
is customary upon such occasions. I was
entirely occupied in speculating as to the

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precise arc I should describe in the air when

the elephant picked me up with his ; - k.

I believe I was under the impression that he

would toss me over his head and then sit on

me. Above all and over all, I was conscious

of a boiling wrath with my nephew Vernon

Hugo Hawkins, who must. I concluded in-

stantanecjusly, have wished to deceive me for

some nefarious end when he said that he

lived at Rajabad.

And the elephant, absorbing more and
more of the j)erspective. steadily advanced.

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CHAPTER IV

An instant later I observed that the animal
was being ridden by a man who sat just
behind its ears, and that it was not, so to
speak, all elephant, but consisted partly of
an erection, presumably dissociable, on its
back. I his somehow gave me courage to
shriek. I shrieked violently, and turning,
almost ran into the arms of my preserver, a
Mahomedan gentleman in a green cap,
spectacles, and whiskers. I have never
before realised the force of the adage that
truth is stranger than fiction ; but I ask you
if anything could ha\'e been more remarkable
than that I— Lavinia Moffat, of Littlehamp-
ton, Sussex— should find myself on a desolate
railway platform in the middle of Northern
India, defended against an oncoming elephant

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by a Mahomedan gentleman in a green
cap, spectacles, and whiskers ? Me did not
come from anywhere, he simi)ly ap[)eared,

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and I was too deeply gratified to see him to
ask him for an account of himself

The Mahomedan gentleman, when he
had recovered from the shock of our con-

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cussion, salaamed. I fear he thought the
bow with which I returned his salutation very
abrupt, but there was no time for idle cere-
mony.

'Are you aware, sir,' said I, 'that there
is an elephant approaching, and that the
telegraph operator is asleep } '

'Oyessir! He is always issleeping, that
offiss baboo ! But if the elephant brines a
telegram, then he will awake.'

At this moment the elephant's trunk [)re-
ceded him round the corner of the station-
house, and I involuntarily got behind my jjre-
server, who instantly faced round with a
reassuring smile.

'Bono/ be afraid! It is no/ alarming!
If there was danger I would not myself stand
here in this place ! It is not a wild elei)han',
it is not mnsth:'' It is domesticated by the
hand of man! Oyessir!— yess, madam!
Also, you may rely upon me, madam. I will
defend you ! '

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I looked the Mahomcdan gcntlcinan in \\\v.
face. It was a face full of amiability, of sin-
cerity, and at that moment of devotion to me.

' I believe vou will,' I said. ' I believer I
may trust you ! ' and I gave him my hand.
He took it with some embarrassment, but
shook it warmly. The ele[)hant by this time
had come up to within ten yards of us, and
was standing, like a church, beside the end of
the platform. I privately determined that
so long as he did not attempt to come upon
the platform I would control myseli. The
Mahomedan gentleman made a step or two
in the direction of the animal, but I detained
him.

' I would rather,' I said, ' you did not
leave me ! ' His face at once lighted up with
pridt; and happiness.

* I do not go,' he re|)li(!d. ' 1 think it
is the elephan' of Mr. Ockinis, but I do
not go! I remain forever — till six o'clock!
— if I can be of use to mada?^'. ! ' and the
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paiiicd these words made inc fc-cl that I
already had one attached friend in huh'a. I
was about to niurniur my thanks when a
native, who had descended from the box
on the back of the elephant, came running
up to where we stood. He salaamed to us
both, but very deeply to me, and it was to
me that he spoke, though I assured him
several times that I did not understand Fiindu-
stani. He jabbered on and would not be
interrupted, for two or three minutes, when
he finished up by abruptly prostrating him-
self upon the |)latform and endeavouring to
j)ut my foot on his head, which struck me as an
unpleasant kind of liberty, though doubtless
well intentioned. 1 drew my feet back one
after the other, and assumed a commanding
manner which I have kept with me for years
as a provision against an emergency of this
sort. I was distinctly gratified to find a use
for it at last.

'Tell him to get uo at once,' I said to my
preserver, and in a moment the man was

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oil his feet explaiiiini^ hiinsclf, with great
\()lubilit\', to the; Mahoinedan j^entleman.

' \t is the elephan' of Mr, Ockinis, and
this is the servant of Mr. Ockinis '

' Well,' I said, ' if this were a cixilised

PUT MV FOOT ON HIS II HAD.

country Mr. Ockinis's elephant would he put
in the pound. I would do it myself.'

' Mr. Ockinis has sent his elephan' f.)r his

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female rdativc. May I ask. madam, if you
arc the female relative of Mr. Ockinis ?'

\ put myself immediately upon my guard.
' l^V'male n'lative ' was vague. ' 1 don't
I<now.' I said, 'I may l)(^ '-which has since
struck me as being rather neat from a diplo-
matic point of view.

The Mahomedan gentleman looked puz-
zled, as \ intended he should.

'Thiss man says Mr. Ockinis gave him
a letter for his female- relative, but the ele-
phan' has eaten it ! '

' Preposterous!' said I.

* I also. I do not believe him.' rejoined
my preserver. ' He says the sahib is at
Nuddiwalla-that is from here ///teen miles.
He says he left Nuddivvalla yesterday at five
o'clock, to feed the elephan' and sleep at
Chotagurh. He wass giving the elephan'
the sugar cane, and he had the letter in his
hand. The elephan' took all-one second !—
it was eaten entirely ! He says he is a poor
man with seven children and two mother-in-

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laws. Myself, I think he was drunk at Chota-
gurh and lost the letter, and I think he has a
great cheeks to say this infernal lie.'

His language was startling, hut the
MahouK^dan gentleman spokc! quite calmly.
The truth Ix-gan to dawn upon me, hut before
allowing it to dawn entirely I decided to try
a little cross-e.xami nation. ' Ask him, please,'
said I, 'the name of the lady to whom the
letter was addressed.'

' He says itwas" Eemuffitty Miss-sahih"
— Miss Eemuffitty — the female relative of
Mr. Ockinis.'

I could think of nothing but an absurd
nursery rhyme for the moment, and I further
mystified the Mahomedan gentleman by
exclaiming, ' Lawks a mussy on us ! This
is none! of I ! '

* My name is Moffat,' I continued, 'and

my nephew's name; is Hawkins — \'(!rnon

Hugo Hav/kins, of the Forest Departmc^nt.'

Certainlee — then it is alright ! Mr.

Ockinis is in camp at Nuddiwalla. He is a

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most nice ^^einlcman. Only yesterday I have
seen him/

I reflected. The mystery was clearing
up, but I would not allow it to clear too
rapid!). • Excuse me,' I said, ' but will you
kindly pronounce the name ** Hawkins " ? '

' Oh, very well 1 know the name, madam
— Ockinis sahib— everyone in Rajabad will
know that name.'

' Mr. //^7i'kins,' I said again.

* Mr. y/ec^kinis,' repeated the Mahomedan
gentleman.

* No,' I said, ' you can't do it, but I see
what you mean. Now. will you kindly say
"Miss Moffat".?'

* Miss Eemuffitty,' he replied, looking so
hurt that I felt obliged to apologise.

* If you knew what I have gone through,'
I said, • on account of my identity, you would
understand my desire to take every precau-
tion,' and I paused. If I seem to have de-
liberated a great deal on the platform at
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assurance that I gave to the Mahomedan
gentleman. It now appeared reasonably
clear that my nei)hew had changed his place
of residence, and, being prevented from
coming to meet me himself, had sent a ser-
vant and an elephant and a letter. The
servant and the elephant were before me,
but the most important link in the chain of
(evidence was missing, and it was not in
the nature of compensation to be told that
it had come also, but was insid(i the elephant.
As my preserver had assured me that this
animal was harmless, I walked a few steps
in his direction and looked at him. He
seemed to be thinking deeply, probably con-
sidering the contents of my nej)hew's com-
munication. As 1 approached he a[)peared
to wink, and, slowly picking u[) his trunk, he
twisted it above his back and blew a (juantity
of sand out of it over his person, which he
seemed to find refreshing. There was abso-
lutely nothing in his conduct, however, to
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tally determined to accept. In the meantime
the Mahomedan gentleman had been talking
earnestly with the servant, and as I came up
again he made me a very low bow and pre-
sented me with his card. It was a gilt-
edged card, highly-glazed ; it smelt of scented
soap, and the name delicately traced on it
was * Abdul Karim Bux.'

' I am much honoured to make the ac-
quaintance of madam,' said he, as I accepted it.

'Well,' I responded, 'as the Americans
say, I'm sure I'm very pleased to meet you,
Mr. Bux ; you have already been of very
great service — indeed I don't know what I
should hav.i done without you ! '

' Ah — to be of service to madam — it is
what I should most like of all the world.'

His manner was really empressi^. I could
not help thinking of all I had read about the
susceptibility of Orientals.

' Thank you very much indeed,' I replied.
' Can you tell me how to find the nearest
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* Wotel, no! In Rajabad there is no such
things. There is not in Rajabad even a
dak-bungalow ! ' People is never stopping at
Rajabad. It is onlee native town — two miles
off. But madam can go to Nuddiwalla,
where is Mr. Ockinis '

'Mr. Karim Bux,' said I, 'how can I
walk fifteen miles ? There seem to be no
conveyances for hire in this place. And then
there are my boxes ! '

' Convey-Awcfd, no ! The road is too bad,
simply. It will be to go through jungle and
to navigate isstreams — very watery isstreams.
Not even byle-gharry'' can go on thissy-
road. It is for thiss the elephan' is sent by
Mr. Ockinis to bring madam, and these
coolies for the boxes carrying.'

' Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Bux, that
my nephew expects me to ride that animal to
Nuddiwalla ! '

Mr. Bux smiled and threw his head back-

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ward and to one side with a gesture of re-
as-iu ranee.

' There will be no harm to madam !
The animal is quadruped, but will eat onlee
trees — that is all ! He will be exceeding
good steed for madam ! '

' You think so !' I replied, I fear somewhat
witheringly, sitting down on one of my boxes
to steady my nerves. ' You do not realise,
Mr. Bux, that I am an English lady who
never, even in the days of her remote infancy,
was mounted upon an elephant before. To be
at the mercy of that animal for fifteen miles !
— I will not hear of it ! Suppose he buck-
jumps ! Nothing,' I went on with some vehe-
mence, ' can excuse my nephew's conduct.
His only aunt travels six thousand miles to
visit him, and she is met by two Hindoos and
an elephant. Do you call that proper, Mr.
Bux } You are a stranger to me, but I ask you
\( yoL would have treated a maiden relative in
this way ? It is — it is simply abominable!'

Mr. Bux joined his two hands together,

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as if to supplicate me not to blame him in the
niatter, and even in that moment of extreme
irritation I observed the grace of the Orien-
tal gesture. After my nephew's conduct, it

MR. fJUX JOINED HIS HANDS TOGETHER.

was like balm. It occurred to me that, after
all, I had no right to blame Mr. Bux.

' Mr. Ockinis is to-day in dovia klidna ^

' Ofificeroom.

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hearing cases, madam. That h(! should Ic^avc
Nuddiwalla it is impossible. I myself, I go
also to Nuddiwalla. If it is permitted by
madam, I walk besides the elephan' and so
it will be alright ! '

I grasped at the idea which immediately
expanded in my mind. ' Can the elephant
not carry two ? ' I demanded.

* Six — eight ! '

* Then, Mr. Bux, you must ride. If you
will accompany me I will make the effort.
If not, here I sit until the next train starts
back to Bombay, and by that train I go.'

' If madam will permit, it will be too
honourable for me ! '

At that moment I observed that my
nephew's servant, without my permission, had
already sent off three of the coolies with
portions of my luggage. The man who
carried my leather box, with all my best things
m it, was already, it seemed to me, disappear-
ing in the distance. I at once sent Mr. Bux
to bring him back.

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* These people may be trustworthy,' I re-
marked, in apology, as he returned, 'and they
may not, Mr. Bux. In any case, it is very
wrong to put temptation in their way.'

MY BEST BONNET.

1 unlocked the box and took out of it my
best bonnet, my new black silk, my brooch
with my Aunt Julia's hair in it, and a few
other odds and ends.

' I suppose there will be no objection to
my bringing these with me on the elephant,'

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I said, as I relocked the box ; ' and now, Mr.
Bux, I think we have wasted quite enough
time for one day. If that animal is to take
me to Nuddiwalla I suppose I must get on
his back. Is there a ladder about the
premises } '

As I walked over to the elephant, with
greater unwillingness than I had ever
experienced in my life before, the man who
sat behind his ears suddenly shouted ' Bite ! '
I started back in the most horrible alarm, but
the animal merely collapsed, slowly and
ponderously, into himself, going down on one
knee after another, though I cannot under-
take to say which pair he began with.

' Mr. Bux,' I exclaimed, ' he told it to
dtte ! '

• Oyess, madam — that is native word ! It
will be meaning to sit down. The elephant
is now took seat.'

' Well,' I said, * he is a great deal too
high up still. Is there no ladder ? '

* Ladder, no ! ' Mr. Bux replied. Seeing

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my hesitation, the man on the elephant again
shouted to it, and the creature slowly rolled
over on its side so as to bring the howdah

I GOT UPON THE STOOL.

arrangement lower down. I was amazed at
its intelligence, but still more afraid to get in.
Suppose I should overbalance the elephant !

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' Here iz, madam ! Wvxv. iz !'
It was the teltigraph clerk, with an office!
stool — exactly the thing for the emergency.
' Thanks,' I said, ' that is very good of you.
Now the question is,' I continued, as they
placed the stool beside the elephant, who
seemed to regard it out of the corner of his
eye, 'will he stand?' It would have been
more exact to say ' sit,' but I was not in the
mood for hair-sp'itting. They all seemed to
think he would, so I got upon the stool, and
Mr. Bux, vaulting lightly up from the other
side, handed me in. The howdah was
divided by a partition, and there was a seat
in each division. I got into the one in front,
and Mr. Bux very modestly sat down beside
the servant behind. I'hen the elephant pro-
ceeded to get up in the same deliberate
manner which he had used in sitting down.
It was trying; the angles at which one was
lurched about were so entirely unexpected,
but I remained calm ; and, thanks to my
presence of mind in putting my feet on my

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bonnet-box and holding on to the sides of tho
howdah with both hands, nothing happened
During the first twenty minutes of i\\v.
journey I was too intent upon trying to
understand the motion to pay very much
attention to the characteristics of the country.
One should always endeavour to adapt one's
self to one's surroundings, and I gave my
whole attention to the attempt to adapt
myself to the elephant. To a certain extent
I succeeded — that is to say, I gathered that
when he used the legs on one side of his body
I might expect to be thrown in this direction,
and when he used those on the other I might
expect to be thrown in that. Beyond this I
did not go, and I have nothing to contribute
to the theory of elephant-riding except that
it should never be undertaken when there is
any other way of going.

' Thiss elephan',' said Mr. Bux, in the
rear, ' it is verry nice elephan' to go — very
easy elephan'. Mr. Ockinis he has one
other elephan', very ^/jrcomfortable.'

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I restrained an exclamation. I did not
wish to hurt Mr. Bux's feelings by reflecting
upon anything peculiar to the country. S(3 I
said nothing.

' Madam like it } ' ventured Mr. Bux
again from the back seat. * I would be glad
if madam like it.'

* I may in time. There are many things
in your country to which one must become
accustomed, Mr. Bux.'

' Oyessir ! The country and the /tvple
too! All is strange to madam,' and Mr.
Bux laughed — somewhat self consciously, I
thought.

' I have come to India prepared to take a
very deep interest in her people,' I said, as I
narrowly escaped being thrown over the
elephant's head. * The Orient has always
had a very great charm for me.'

Mr. Bux leaned forward eagerly. ' Yes-
sir, that is noble idea. And then, I 'ope,
madam will take a small interest in me
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' I will see about that, Mr. Bux,' I replied
cautiously. He was really going too far, even
for an impressionable Oriental, on so short
an acquaintance. I glanced at him a little
diffidently, and could not hel}) noticing that
his eyes were shining with emotion, behind
his s[)ectacles, and that he was nervously
pulling his whiskers with one small brown
hand, while his green silk cap was pushed
quite to one side. I felt a premonition that
I was on the eve of a remarkable experience,
and gazed dreamily out at the expanses of
wild and sunburnt country that seemed to
heave before me with the motion of the
elephant. ' Tell me something of yourself,'
I added, and then wondered if I had given
him too much encouragxmient. At that
moment my bonnet-box flew open, and with
some difficulty I shut it again. I had often
heard that in the crises of existence trifles
like these make an extraordinary impression,
and now I believe it.

Abdul Karim Bux beamed with pleasure.

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I could see him beaming, though I did not
look round.

' Of myself there is nothing what I could
enjoy more than telling madam every things.
I am failed B.A.'

' What kind of B. A.?'

' Failed B.A. — not succeeded B.A. In
this country B.A. is better than failed B.A.,
but failed B.A. it is also something. I regret,
madam, of the examiners I had one enemy.
He will not allow my English. I am also
Government servant in the Forest Depart-
ment. I was born eighteen hundred and
sixty, and I am in Government service now it
is six years.'

'That,' I reflected, 'makes him thirty-
three. Just eight years younger' — but I
would not permit myself to complete the
thought. After all, what was Abdul Karim
Bux to me ? I answered myself sternly — a
heathen. His mere speaking English and
wearing spectacles could never remove this
barrier, I told myself.

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' And your family ? ' I said aloud.

' I think I have touched the heart of
madam ! My father, he is now gone very
old. My brothers, I have two fine chaps.
They are making their pile in bussiness, and
they are always wanting me to come with
them. But I am too loyal for that — I like
better the Government service. Madam is
the ant of Mr. Ockinis ? How lucky gentle-
man, to possess esteem of madam ! Madam's
intelligence has conquered my every affec-
tion ! '

'You may call me " Miss Moffat," Mr.
Bux,' said I, looking at him frankly. I
thought I might go as far as that.

* It will place us on a more agreeable
footing, and I'm sure I have had every reason
to be obliged to you, If you were not my
j)reserver, you might have been — I am sure
you would have been, if preservation had
been necessary. But beyond this I cannot
go to-day. I must have time, a great deal of
time, for reflection. The present situation is

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far, far too romantic ; and I am obliged to tell
you that unless I can accustom myself by the
exercise of will-power to the motion of this
animal pretty soon, I shall be obliged to get
off. So I beg you to say no more to-day.*

Mr. Bux folded both his hands in the
vicinity of his heart, and bowed. He looked
very, very happy, and for the next quarter of
an hour I tormented myself with the idea
that I had said too much.

It was a strange ride. The road was narrow
and stony, and on each side stretched away
either bare grassy plains or patches of low
jungle. The elephant took his time, and it
was two o clock before we got to Chotagurh,
where there was a dak-bungalow, and where
luncheon, by my nephew's order, was awaiting
me. I said grace over that luncheon in a
properly thankful spirit. Mr. Bux had
brought his with him, it seemed, and I did
not press him in the matter when he said he
preferred to take it on the verandah. After
Chotagurh we entered the forest, and I

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realised how iidventurous I had been in
starting. I was obh'ged to close my um-
brella ; three times my i)ith hat was knocked

MY PITH HAT WAS KNOCKED OFF.

off by overhanging branches ; and once I
became so entangled in a thorny vine that it
was necessary to sto}) the elephant to cut

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me loose. I have now a double sympathy
for all tropical (explorers — I Know what they
are obliged to put up with. Among my
other misfortunes I lost a spotted veil almost
new, which cost me one and ninepence at
Mrs. Dodd's, and a tortoise-shell comb
which I had had for fifteen years. Not that
I wish to throw blame on anybody connected
with the expedition. The man sitting on
the elephant's neck cut down everything he
could reach with an enormous knife which he
wore in his belt, and wiienever a branch was
too big for this he spoke to the elephant, who
simply curled his trunk round it and snapped
it off. Sometimes a tree stopped the way,
and I am not exaggerating when I say that
the man then gave a different order, and
the elephant bent the tree over with his
trunk and put his foot on it. I may say that
the man, the elephant, and Mr. Bux com-
bined their energies to render the trip an
agreeable one, and if they did not succeed it
was because tropical nature was too strong

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for them. My only real terror, however,
was when we were crossing the streams
of which Mr. Buy had warned me, and the
elephant's feet slipped about among the big
stones below the rushing water. It would
have been too dreadful to have come
thousands of miles by sea to meet shipwreck
in an Indian forest.

I suppose I ought to say something here
about the wonders of the tropics, but I am
not good at describing the beauties of
scenery. I had a cousin who wrote poetry,
but she died, and no other Moffat was
ever known to be sentimental. Besides,
it was a great deal more like any other forest
than you would expect — trees and thick
bushes and vines, and here and there a
cleared space. It was very silent, though,
and I was glad of Mr. Bux. But for the
thoughts he aroused I should have had
creepy sensations. I saw neither serpents nor
wild animals of any sort — nothing but little
yellow butterflies that fluttered along in front

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of US, and a bird that called and flew now and
then in the distance. Nevertheless, I despair
of making you comprehend the singularity of
the experience.

At about five o'clock we emerged upon
the road again, and a few scattered huts gave
an air of life to the surroundings. Mr. Bux,
since my command, had been talking of
impersonal matters. He now signified the
necessity of his alighting.

* In one mile, Miss Eemuffitty, you will
be arrived,' he said.

' But why not ride the rest of the way > '
I asked.

* Mr. Ockinis—I do not know—Mr.
Ockinis may not like that I find favour with
Miss Eemuffitty. I think Mr. Ockinis may
be jealous that I have touch the heart of his
so intelligent ant ! I think it will be better
madam does not say she has isspoken to me.
In a few days, yes. But to-day, no ! '

I thought I understood his feelings.
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mention it. And — and you may write me
what you feel. I will at least keep it sacred.'
With this I shook hands with Mr. Bux, and
he scrambled down. A quarter of an hour
later we approached a wide clear space, with
two or three tents dotted about it. A small
white terrier ran out barking, and the
elephant calmly picked it up with his trunk
and dropped it in the howdah beside me,
where it continued to bark. Two gentlemen
followed the terrier, and as they approached
and took off their hats the elephant sat down.

' Well, Aunt Vinnie, this is sporting of
you ! ' cried one of them. ' Welcome to
Nuddi walla ! '

Doubt fled from my mind ; it was
Vernon's voice, though he had certainly
grown stout. I could have fallen upon his
neck. But it was impossible, under the cir-
cumstances.

' Yes, Vernon,' I responded, 'here I am,
and now the question is how I am to get
down. I don't mind telling you that if I had

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known what I shoulcl have to go thnuigh to
get here, I never would have left Little-
hampton ! '

'Then I'm glad you didn't know. Parker,
hold his tail, will you ? This is Major Parker,
Aunt Vinnie ! Now then, give me your
hand, put your foot on his tail — that's it ! —
and here you are ! Very nice of you to come.
Aunt Vinnie! And you're just in time for
tea!'

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CHAPTER V

I ASK you to believe me when I tell you that,
as far as the eye could see, there was not a
single human habitation in Nuddiwalla— I
don't call tents human habitations. In one
direction stretched a wide river bed, all stones
and grass, and hills beyond. In the other
three, forest and nothing else. The road I
had come by ran out of the forest through
this cleared space, and into it again, and
beside it, in one place a tangle of plantains
grew amongst what looked like three or four
piles of dead leaves, which I afterwards found
to be huts. At a glance you could see that
Nuddiwalla was not a social centre of any
importance, and from the moment of my
arrival I regretted getting my new black silk.
By the time I should be back in Little-

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hiimpton it would be; completely out of date,
and not even a black silk will cut to any-
great advantage twice.

HK LUTKI) THK FLAP

My ne[)hew was indubitably there, how-
ever— that was the great point ; and what-
ever my opinion of his choice of a place of
residence might be, I looked with the most

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appreciative gratitude at the mole on his
forehead. As he lifted the (lap which stood
for his hospitable door, and we all went in, I
was much more in the mood for my tea than
for criticism of any kind, though I saw in an
instant that a great deal of it would be
required. My nephew was evidently living
like a savage. In one corner of the tent
were two or three guns and a pair of impu-
dent top boots ; in the other a camp bed
with all sorts of unblushing garments folded
on the top of it. A set of standing shelves,
containing books and documents, a camp
table, and four camp chairs, completed the
furniture of the tent. I took a seat on one
of the chairs, and looked round me in silent
disapprobation, which Vernon probably put
down to fatigue.

' Well, Aunt Vinnie,' he rattled on, ' this
is quite like old times. But you might have
given a fellow more warning, you know.
Camp life is rather hard luck on a lady just
out from England. There's the magistrate

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of Jiimmanugger, up the river — I could have
got his wife to put you up for a while, if I'd
only known.'

' I didn't come six thousand miles to see
the wife of the magistrate of Jummanugger,'
I responded firmly, ' and I beg you will do
nothing of the kind, Vernon. What you can
put up with I can put up with. Do you
intend to let that tea get stone cold before
you pour it out, or shall I do it ? '

' Parker,' said my nephew, ' I could ima-
gine myself a boy again. Aunt Vinnie
brought me up ! My dear aunt, if you use
that tone of voice with me before the ser-
vants my influence in the district will be
gone. I don't mind Parker here, but I must
ask you, as a rule, to bully me in private.'

As he spoke, Vernon handed me a cup of
tea and a biscuit, and I proceeded to refresh
myself before taking any notice of his non-
sense. That is to say, I tasted the tea,
walked over to the table, and put down my
cup.

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'Vernon,' I said, * if, as you say, I had
not brought you up with my own hands, I
should suspect you of a plot to poison your
aunt.'

' 'Pon my honour. Aunt Vinnie, it's the
same tea I always '

I held up my finger. 'Send,' I said, 'for
the servant who made it.'

' Moulla Khan ! ' my nephew shouted, and
the man appeared. ' Go for him, Aunt
Vinnie ! He understands a little English.'

The man stood before me, and I felt that
the moment for asserting myself as the moral
head of Vernon's household had come. To
make myself plainer, I took the cup and
emptied its contents scornfully into the slop-
basin. * This cka ' T said, slowly, looking
fixedly at Moulla Khan, ' very plenty bad
cka. Reason why because, I tell you. Too
much cha in pot — no boil water.'

The man turned volubly to Vernon in
great excitement, joining his hands together
as if he were imploring my nephew to save

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his life. ' Tell him \ won't do anything to
him this time,' I added hurriedly, ' but he'll
have to make it over again.'

' He says it is made as I always have it,
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I EMPTIED IT SCORNFULLY.

Aunt Vinnie, but it may be very bad for all
that. And he says that he did make it with
boiling water.'

' Rubbish and nonsense \^ernon. I'll

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thank you to believe that I know when tea
is properly made. The water was not boil-
ing.'

' Pani boil hua', insisted Moulla Khan,
with an injured expression. 'Four clock
boil hua ! AlbiU boil patii hai ! '

* What does he say } ' I asked Major
Parker, who had hitherto modestly kept out
of the conversation. He was a little man,
very mild-mannered.

* He says, Miss Moffat, that not only ha.s
the water boiled, but that it boiled at four
o'clock. Therefore, without doubt, it is
boiled water.'

' Poor ignorant heathen ! ' I said, as both
the men laughed in what I thought a heartless
way. ' He doesn't know the difference. Tell
him to bring some tea, and with my spirit
lamp I will begin at once to teach him,' and
in ten minutes tea was made, Moulla Khan
looking respectfully on, which it was possible
to drink without risking the entire destruc-
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' Aunt Vinnie,' remarked Vernon, a quar-
ter of an hour later, ' I tremble to show you
your quarters, but it must be done sooner or
later, and I fancy you would like to lie down
or unpack or something. Will you come
now ? '

We stepped out into the gathering dusk,
and I noticed that the place had become
populous. Fires were burning here and
there, and I could discern people moving
about, and horses and cows, while from some
obscurity came the familiar notes of cocks
and hens. I felt more reconciled and com-
fortable in my mind, and 1 did my best to cheer
Vernon up over the prospect of having me.
' My dear boy, you needn't worry,' I said, as
he gave me his arm over the uneven ground,
' it isn't as though I were a stranger, you
know.'

* No,' Vernon confessed, ' it isn't'

* I am prepared for remarkable ex-
periences. I have become convinced lately
that the life at Littlehampton is confining,

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and I knew I should find the best contrast to
it in the Orient, where you, fortunately, were.
1 may say that it is my aim to gather u[)

wp: stkim'ki) out.

remarkable experiences, and already I have
laid by several,' I added, thinking, not
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' You see,' Vernon interrupted, evidently
preoccupied, 'I've never had a lady in camp
before, and I had to leave the fixings pretty
much to Radabullub. He and the camels
went to Jummanugger the day before
yesterday, when your telegram came, and he
seemed to think he had brought the right
sort of things. I had an extra tent, luckily,
but it's rather small, as you see.'

It was rather small, and its contents were
so various that I thought I would rather
express myself about them when Vernon was
not there. So I told him I wanted a lam(),
and sent him away. Then I sat down on
the edge of a rickety folding bed, abcjut two
feet wide, and surveyed the circumstances
under which I was to take up my abode in
Nuddiwalla. There was a small unvarnished
wooden table, on four very long and shaky
legs, and on the table a large looking-glass
and two blue porcelain vases with glass
pendants. There was a pric-Dicu chair,
worked in Berlin wool, a good deal moth-

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eaten, and, hanging upon the side of the
tent, another looking-glass. The whole of
one wall of the tent was occupied by a

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wardrobe with a carved top and mirror
swinging-doors, perfectly new. On the
ground, which was covered with a coarse

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cloth, through which every lump and stone
asserted itself, lay what I took to be a foot-
stool, but closer inspection disclosed it a
large flannel pincushion, bristling with pins,
pins little and big, black and white, pins with
blue heads and jet heads and gold heads, a
perfectly bewildering assortment. Rada-
bullub was acquainted with at least one
feminine necessity. As I sat there I heard
the sound of rushing water, and, lifting the
llap in the canvas partition which divided oft
the bath tent, I discovered a man, very wet,
and nearly naked, filling a tin bath tub with
water out of a goatskin. I observed that my
ablutions were further provided for by a brass
basin, on a kind of high wooden stand, and a
large cake of pink soap. While I watched
him, the man emptied his goatskin, salaamed,
and disappeared through another flap, leaving
me to wonder whether I might depend in
future upon knowing when he was coming.
A portentous cough just outside the tent door
brought me back, and there were Vernon

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and the lamp and Radabullub. I knew at
once it was Rt.dabullub by the look of

EMPTIED HIS GOATSKIN.

satisfaction and pride upon his face as he put
down the lamp, an enormous duplex burner
with a hand-painted bowl, in tulips and

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humming birds. X'ernon looked round
doubtfully. ' I hope Radabullub has made
you comfortable, aunt,' he said. ' He's a
pretty good fellow at a biindolmst* as a rule.'

' I shall have to get accustomed to it be-
fore I can tell exactly,' I replied, ' but in the
meantime I don't mind saying that I'm very
much obliged to Radabullub for that ward-
robe. A wardrobe with looking-glass doors
in the middle of the tropical jungle I did not
expect to find, and it will simply be the
salvation of my black silk.'

' Let him stay and unpack for you,'
Vernon suggested. ' Give him your keys
and lie down. You must be dead beat.'

' Not on any account. Radabullub has
been very useful, but he must run away now.
And I'll be obliged to you, Vernon, if you'll
put the lamp on the floor in a corner. That
table will certainly collapse under it.'

They did as they were told, and I was
presently once more alone with this luminary,

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which shone at mc from its corner on the
floor Hke a heavenly body in declension. In
spite of it, I felt very low in my mind, and if
it had not been for one thing I think I
should have given way, at least for the
moment. That one thing was the wardrobe.
The wardrobe stood there waiting to be filled
— a solid, respectable piece of furniture that
seemed to civilise the whole of Nuddiwalla.
I am not ashamed to write that I drew more
moral support from that wardrobe in the
earlier part of my visit to my nephew than
from any other circumstance that surrounded
me. It inspired me in the present instance
to unpack all my boxes, and I am thankful
to be able to say that, with the exception of
my waterproof and an old striped gingham,
everything went into it. Dinner was at
eight, and in the end I decided to put on my
black silk. It was, after all, the best way of
getting the wrinkles out.

We were four at dinner, a Mr. Jones, in
riding things, having appeared while I was

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unpacking. I said I was glad to see lilm.
although he might possibly have read in my
manner that I thought he should have given

EVKRVTHING WIA'I INTO IT,

notice of his arrival. He was on his way
from something-pore to something-nugger.
He had all the familiaritv of a relation, and

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my nephcnv and Major Parker called him
Jimmy. He was a boisterous young man,
engaged in the tea-planting business, and I
saw at once that he would have to be curbed.
We sat round the camp table, which was

HAD TO RE CURBED.

illuminated by a couple of lanterns tied to
the tent pole and furnished with a service of
white edged with blue, considerably cracked,
and Radabullub and Moulla Khan stood
behind our chairs. I was conscious that a
great deal devolved upon me, and I am glad

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to say that I was able to make my influence
felt from the moment we sat clown. It was
clone very simply. Mr. Jones asked me
what induced me to take so long a journey
alone, and I replied that I had come to throw-
about my nephew the influences of home.
They seemed to understand that, for not
another word was said until we had finished
our soup. I suppose it was sinking into
their minds.

' I've brought back that book of yours,
Hawkins,' remarked Mr. Jones, leaning back
and playing with his fork, while Radabullub
and Moulla Khan departed into the outer
darkness for the next course — ' For a trans-
lation it's not bad.'

' Translation of what ? ' I inquired.

' Of Aristotle, madam,' said Mr. Jones.
I have always believed that he wished to dis-
play his erudition in dragging in Aristotle,
but I took no notice of it at the time.

* Dear me ! ' I said, ' are you driven to
Aristode ? You will be glad to hear that

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Y)

I've brought you something lighter than
that,' and I went on to mention the back
numbers of the Sunday at Home. ' I fancy
they will keep you going,' I added, * for some
time.'

' Dear me, yes ! ' responded Vernon,
gratefully. ' For ages, Aunt Vinnie. Have
another slice of peacock, won't you ? '

' Of z.'/iat ? ' I exclaimed.

' Peacock — wild peacock. It zuas a cock,
wasn't it, Parker.^ Don't look aghast, Aunt
Vinnie, it's quite good to eat — Parker shot it
yesterday.'

' Did you ?' I inquired of Major Parker.
* I am not astonished — 1 am i)ast feelin":
astonishment at anything I experience in this
country 1 ut before writing in my diary that
I have eaten roast peacock I should like to
be quite sure that my nephew is in earnest.'

Major Parker looked rather frightened,
but he owned up to the peacock. ' Why,
yes, I believe I did,' he said, somewhat
shamefacedly.

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' Of course you did, Parker,' remarked
Mr. Jones. ' I'd know he was your shikar*
if I ate him at the Criterion. I've taken six
shot out of one helping myself ! '

The other two men seemed to find
this amusing, but I saw nothing to laugh
at.

' If an animal is to be shot at all it should
be shot until it is quite dead,' I remarked,
' and if it was necessary for Major Parker to
shoot six times at the peacock, I'm sure he
was perfecdy right in doing so.'

Major Parker turned crimson under my
commendation. My nephew looked un-
usually solemn, and Mr. Jones exploded with
folly at his own attempt at wit.

* There are the tail feathers. Miss Moffat
— no end of 'em,' said Major Parker. ' If
you would like them — ladies sometimes do —
I'll have them salted and dried for you.
They're rather pretty.'

I was about to acknowledge the compli-

. * Game.

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ment and graciously accept, when I suddenly
realised what I was doing.

' Peacock feathers ! ' I exclaimed. ' I am
very much obliged to you, Major Parker,
but nothing could induce me to take them.
I suppose nothing in the world is as unlucky
as peacock's feathers. I hope you will have
them thrown away at once. I'm not super-
stitious, but there's something about pea-
cock's feathers that is never known to fjiil.
I hope there's no harm in eating peacock.'

They assured me that this bird was con-
stantly eaten in camp, and that nobody was
ever known to be any the worse for it, and
among the various other dishes which Rada-
bullub offered me I tried to forget having
partaken of it. But the memory of it haunts
me still, and I only hope that things will stop
happening which I can trace, directly or
indirectly, back to that peacock.

I was perfectly willing to sit up and chat
with them for awhile after dinner, but they
all pressed me so solicitously to retire and try

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to get a little re; t after my arduous day that
I consented. A full moon had risen from
behind the hills, and under it they made a
thin blue shadow along the horizon. One
could almost count the big white stones in
the river bed, and the little stream that
hurried along the middle of it murmured and
called as it went in a way that I had not
noticed at all in the daytime. Every shrub
and tree stood out by itself in the silence ;
only the long leaves of tlic plantains by the
road waved up and down, everything else
was as motionless as if it were listening.
The forest on all sides was black in the
moonlight, and seemed to have drawn closer
round. Far in the distance somethiiv^

o

cried.

' What's that } ' I asked Vernon.

' Only a barking deer. You're not ner-
vous about sleeping in a tent. Aunt Vinnie } '

' If I were I don't see how I could help
myself,' I responded, 'but I'm not. At
least, I don't think I am.'

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is

&

' There isn't the least reason to be,' said
V^ernon. 'And there am I, you know, as
handy as possible, and Parker not twenty
yards on the other side of you. Good-
night ! '

' Good-night ! Oh — Vernon ! '

' Yes.'

' Wasn't that your dog I saw when I
came.'* Couldn't I have him in the tent
with me ? '

' Squips ? Oh, yes, certainly ! But if I
were you I wouldn't. If there's one thing a
leopard likes, it's a nice fat black and white
terrier like Squips. He's had one or two
near shaves already.'

' Oh ! very well. In that case perhaps I
am better without him. Good-night ! —
Vernon ! '

• Well, Aunt Vinnie .? '

' 1 1 wouldn't take you long, would it, to
show me how to manage a gun } '

' Great Scott, aunt ! What for ? There'll
be nothing to shoot — take my word for it.

I'KAWOyS AUST

1-7

Good-night! If you want to be reassured,
think of Parker's gun. He's iii) end of a
shikari ! ' and my nephew strode back to his
tent in the moonlight, leaving me holding
open the flap of mine, of two minds whether
to go after him or not.

I

MY NKPHKW STRODl.; HACK.

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CHAPTER VI

m

If anyone had ^ver told me that I, Lavinia
Moffat, would one night occupy a tent in the
heart of the Indian forest, alone and
surrounded by wild beasts, I would have
considered the person a suitable subject for
a lunatic asylum. As it was, on the night of
January the 20th, 1893, I thought that this
designation might very properly be applied
to myself. For there was no doubt about
my identity ; there I sat, Lavinia Moffat — if
I wanted to assure myself I had only to look
at the initials on my brush and comb case —
there I sat in my new black silk, which I
noticed Mrs. Dodd had gored, though I
expressly told her not to, on the edge of my
camp-bed, without a gun, and not a sound to
break the stillness but the never-stopping

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ping

song of the stream over the stones, iind the
distant barking of the animal Vernon had
said was a deer. As I sat there I reviewed
my past, from the hemming of my first hand-
kerchief to the day I took over charge of the
Littlehampton Dorcas Society, and coukl not
help reflecting that a past less likely to lead
to the situation I was in would have been
very difficult to conceive. There seemed to
have been nothing whatever to prepare me
for it, especially in the matter of bedding.
Feathers in the winter, horsehair in the
summer, and a good spring mattress were
what I had been accustomed to ever since I
could remember.

I had been insincere with Vernon when
he asked me if I was nervous about sleeping
in a tent. I was extremely nervous, if not
actually alarmed, and in the end I went to
bed only because I felt that it was safer on
the whole than to sit up. The hours that
intervened before I got to sleep I devoted to
endeavouring to accustom myself to my

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;lr,

m

surroundings. The effort was not particu-
larly successful. If it had been pitch dark it
would have been easier, but the moonlight
made a greyness everywhere, through which
the outlines of things suggested themselves
indistinctly, and refused to let me delude
myself into the idea that I was just dropping
off in my own room at Littlehampton.
Everything combined, on the contrary, to
impress upon me that I was six thousand
miles from Littlehampton on a camp-bed in
the middle of Asia. As the night wore on
the stream became more clamorous, the deer
stopped barking, and instead I heard a
distant roaring which chilled my blood. It
was so far away that I have never been able
to satisfy myself from what animal it pro-
ceeded, but it might have been anything.
Twice stealthy footsteps passed and re-passed
my tent, and when that happened I should
have lost my self-control entirely if I had not
remembered that the footsteps of Radabullub
behind my chair at dinner had been equally

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131

Stealthy, and that these were also probably
on business. A phrenologist once told me
that my will-power was very highly de-
veloped, and I have ever since prided myself
considerably upon it. When I found myself
physically unable to turn my head on my
pillow from pure fright, therefore, annoyance
w^as added to my other sensations, which had
been lively enough before.

Finally I gave up trying to exert my will-
power, and it was about this time that I got
to sleep. It must have been hours later, for
the moon was gone, and the tent was in black
darkness, when I awoke in a rigid horror and
the knowledge that something shared it with
me. I seemed to perceive it with every
nerve at once, but in an instant I heard the
creature crunching its prey in the middle of
the tent, as far as I could judge, about two
feet from the table and three from my bed.
I despair of making you partake of my
sensations, and, indeed, I should not desire
to do so. My mind was preternaturally acute

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-ill ; !i I

! !

i'il

m

m

— I knew at once that the animal was car-
nivorous, and that it had brought the
fragments of its last meal to my bedside in
order the more conveniently to begin upon
me. Without stirring I moved my eyes
— carefully, so as to make no noise — and
searched every part of the tent with them,
but could see absolutely nothing, while the
crunching went on with terrible distinctness.
Now and again it would cease, and then I lay
like an agonised stone, every instant ex-
pecting to feel the onslaught of tooth and
claw. Presently the animal brought my
terror to a climax by getting up, stretching
itself, and walking round the tent. In a
galvanism of fright I threw both my arms
into the air, and cried * Whish ! ' : . •. :

Then I immediately covered my head
with the bedclothes, but through them all I
could hear the creature growling and beating
its tail on the ground. With the desperation
of the situation I realised that I must take
action of some sort. It suddenly came into

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niV

:ching
In a
arms

my mind that wild beasts were afraid of fire,
and I remembered the box of wax-matches 1
had put under my pillow when I went to bed.
I had rebuked Vernon for his extravagance
in using wax-matches — was one of them to
be my salvation now ? Where I got the
strength or the courage I do not know, but
in another instant I had struck a match. It
fizzed, exploded, blazed ! By its weird and
sudden illumination I saw two great yellow
eyes and a waving tail. There was a fright-
ful snarl and a bound — two bounds, one
of them being mine, out of bed and forth into
the night. Before I realised whether I was
pursued or not, I was shaking the man in
the next tent. I did not consider whether it
might or might not be Vernon. I knew it
was a man, and any man would do.

When he said, ' What's the matter ? ' I
recognised that it was Mr. Jones, but felt no
embarrassment whatever.

There's either a tiger or a leopard in my
tent ! ^ Quick, get up and shoot it ! '

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* By Jove!' exclaimed Mr. Jones, and
was out of bed in a moment. ' May I — may
I light the lantern, Miss Moffat.^'

* Yes, you may,' I returned, for I had

THERE WAS A FRIGHTFUL SNARL.

slept in my dressing-gown for fear of an
emergency — a thing I did every night after
that I spent at Nuddi walla.

* I'll go and wake Parker,' said Mr. Jones,

TOOK HIS GUN FROM THE CORNER AND LEFT MK.

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when it was lighted ; ' we mustn't keep the
fun all to ourselves, Miss Moffat ! '

Fun !

He took his gun from the corner, and
left me with a candle and my reflections.
Even in that moment, when my nerves were
so strung that they might have snapped like
fiddle-strings, I reflected that I had not done
Mr. Jones justice — he was a brave, though
evic nly reckless, young man. Ten
minutes passed, during which I heard nothing
but the ticking of Mr. Jones's silver watch,
which hung from a buttonhole in the
waistcoat that lay across the corner of his
bed. Then came a shot — voices — another
shot! More talking and laughing — I
breathed again — they had evidently killed
the creature.

Through the opening of the tent I saw
the light from the lantern flickering across
the ground as the men approached, and I
distinguished my nephew's voice jubilant
among the rest.

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137

' Have you got him ? ' I cried from the
d^or. . " '

* Rather ! ' replied the nearest of the
three spectres in pyjamas, Mr. Jones.

I .SAW THE LIGHT FROM THK LAN ! KRN.

'Come and see, Miss Moffat !'

I went out boldly at this, and they held
the lantern for me to look. They had got
him indeed— there lay his corpse — but I ask

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you to picture to yourself my emotions when
I saw that he was only a poor, unfortunate,
homeless, wandering cat — a cat that might,
with better opportunities, have adorned any

fireside. With an
effort I controlled
myself Words were
vain. I merely

looked at the three
assassins, individually
and collectively, and
said, in a tone of con-
centrated resentment,
' You brutes ! '

Vernon made an
effort to justify him-
self He said they
' YOU BRUTES ! ' had been on the

look-out for that cat for weeks : it was the most
inveterate thief in the neighbourhood, and
nightly preyed upon Radabullub's pantry, and
he produced the mutton bone which the poor
thing had been enjoying in my tent as a

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proof. I asked him, in return, if he had ever
thought of putting a saucer of milk outside
his tent, or made any other attempt to reform
the cat, and when he replied no, by Jove !
he hadn't, I left them, more in sorrow than
in anger, and went to bed.

I was awakened in the morning by
groans — long, bubbling, horrid sounds of a
creature in torment. They proceeded from
behind my tent, and were accompanied by
excited human voices. Never have I dressed
with so little regard for my appearance. I
ran out upon the scene without my collar,
without my cuffs, actually in my bedroom
slippers. I don't know what I was prepared
to do, but I immediately realised that there
would be no necessity for doing it. The
groans proceeded from a camel, by no means
a camel in the last stage of dissolution, but a
healthy and vigorous-looking camel who was
being loaded for a journey. Their heart-
breaking character was owing to the length
of his throat, and the fact that he artificially

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mixed them up with whatever he had last
had to drink ; and it did not take a moment's
observation to convince me that they were

A HEALTHY AND VIGOROUS-LOOKING CAMEL.

the purest affectation. I have rather an eye
for humbugs, and, though I had never seen
one before with four legs and a hump, I

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M»

mtirked him. His com[>lciints were abso-
lutely without rhyme or reason, for he had
begun them before a stick had been put upon
him. He emitted them every five seconds,
using the interval to snap at the man nearest
to him. He twisted his face round in
dignified expostulation, he threw his head
back in flat refusal, he stretched out his neck
in furious and ignominious resignation. At
every fresh object that was put into the
baskets on each side of his back he bubbled
and groaned as if it were the proverbial last
straw — in spite of my discernment of
hypocrisy, if I had been loading him he
would certainly h^^ve imposed upon me. In
fact, I was beginning to feel a certain amount
of sympathy for him, and to think of inter-
fering, when his driver untied his front knees
and the creature lurched up on his four feet
Do you suppose he went on bubbling .^ Not
another bubble ! He ambled off as easily
and comfortably as you please, and I am
almost ready to vouch that as he passed me

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with his ridiculous neck at its usual super-
cilious curve, he looked at me and winked !

I met Radabullub as I went back to my
tent, with a letter — a letter addressed to me.
The envelope was pink, and scalloped round
the flap with an embossed bunch of flowers.
The address was in an unknown masculine
hand, rather flowing, and the back suggested
that a great many efforts had been required
to make the flap adhere before any had
succeeded. Instantly I divined that it was
from Mr. Bux, and scanned Radabullub's
countenance, which, however, expressed
nothing. I noticed that he followed me into
the tent, on the pretence of wanting to take
away the lamp, and fussed about until I
was obliged to tell him to be gone, for I was
determined not to open the missive in his
presence. I don't say that I was in the
habit of receiving letters of this nature, but
I knew enough about them not to do
that.

* Leave me,' I said to Radabullub, and

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•43

when Radabullub had well left, I calmly
inserted a hatpin into one corner of the
communication and tore it open. It was

'LEAVE ME,' I SAID.

land

written upon foreign notepaper with blue
lines, and began ' Respected Madam,' which
struck me as infelicitous.

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■;:■!«

• Respected Madam, — I have the honour to
state that all night I have been aj^onising upon
the pillo, and it is not the muskutos nor the
bad digestion nor the pangs of conscience that I
can account for this. I do not wish to gild refined
gold or paint the lilies, but it is the memory of
madam's so gracious language which is my only
support in this trying our. Pending sanction, I
will speak with Mr. V. H. Hawkins on Friday, loth
inst., but I have the fear that he has prejudice
against your most humble slave, and will not hear
me in the suit. Madam, my prayers are with you.
Kindly judge the thing. Now your neffew has
most noble heart, but I think he cannot put up
with other man's collored skin. But skin is not
sin.

' I have the honour to be, sir, your most devo-
tional servant, Abdul Karim Bux.'

I was perfectly collected. Such a situa-
tion had never been even suggested to me
as a possible experience for a lady traveller
in the Orient in search of them, but I made
up my mind that nothing should induce me
to. faint. 1 confess I did not expect Mr. Bux
to be so precipitate. As to his laying the

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'45

bitua-
to me
seller
lade
me
Bux
the

matter before Vernon, that I could understand
in the light of the Oriental custom which re-
quires that everything must be referred to the
male head of the household. If Vernon had
been my grandson, instead of my nephew,
I reflected that my hand would have been
solicited with just the same formalities. I
read the letter again, and thought of the
wonderful insight I was getting into Eastern
habits of mind. Then I began to have
scruples. Had I any right to sacrifice even
a Mahomedan gentleman in a green cap and
spectacles upon the altar of my heartless
curiosity ? For I assure you I had not, even
for a moment, thought of becoming Mrs. Bux.
Not that I considered Vernon. Vernon, I
reflected, would not K likely to object to any
alliance his aunt might choose to contract.
But my affections were not touched, and I
had not waited forty-two years for my affec-
tions to be touched to wed anybody who
failed to do it, in the shape of a Mahomedan
person who, although he wore a coat and

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trousers, probably bowed down to wood and
stone. Besides, how could I possibly tell
that I should be the only Mrs. Bux ! It seems

PROBABLY BOWED DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE.

to be necessary to be very candid in writing
anything autobiographical nowadays, so I
will keep back nothing, and confess that my
real feeling about Mr. Bux was that, while I

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147

rnting

so I

Lt my

Ihile 1

did not want his affection, his admiration was
very acceptable to me. I would have liked
to be his patroness and improve his spelling,
while he should look the homage he dare not
speak. This was my sentiment, although
it was unworthy of me. I realised that it
was also impracticable, and brought out my
writing-box to say so.

' My dear Mr. Bux,' I began.

* While I cannot say that you have not
awakened my interest, it is my painful duty
to let you know at once that you have not
won my heart, and my hand can never be
yours. You must not ask my nephew for it
on any account. Strange as it may appear to
you, it is not his to bestow. In case you may
feel that I have given you some encourage-
ment, I can only say that in England a single
ride on an elephant, which was unavoidable,
would never be considered in that light.'

I read this over, and thought it had a
ring of cold indifference, so I added :

' Your emotions may be painful at pre-

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sent, but time will cure them. Sooner or
later you will fnid consolation in another.
Meantime you may always think oi me as
your friend, Lavinia Moffat.'

I was just reflecting that I had forgotten
to say anything about fully realising the
honour he had done me, when I noticed that
Mr. Bux's letter bore no address. How then
could I re[)ly, I asked myself in consternation
— how prevent that fateful interview with
Vernon ? There was no way, absolutely none.
My Oriental admirer was doubtless in the
neighbourhood, but I could not take long
walks in the jungle in the hope of meeting
him — I was too much afraid of meeting other
things. I could neither trust Vernon's
heathen servants, nor make them understand,
except Radabullub, who already, I could see,
had his private objections to my presence at
Nuddiwalla. Clearly, I had no resource but
to lock the two letters up in my writing-desk
as mementoes, which I did, wondering if some
day, when faded and yellow, they would fall

^r or
ithcr.
lie as

rotten
r the
:l that
V then
nation
^ with
r none,
in the
e long
eeting
other
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r stand,
Id see,
snce at
ce but
g-desk
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149

into the hands of my executors and weave a
posthumous r(>manc(! about my meuK^ry. I
rather hoped they would.

Then I endeavoured to analyse my reasons

I ENDEAVOURED TO ANALYSE MY REASONS

for wishing to keep Mr. Bux's admiration of
myself a secret from Vernon, and found that
there was, after all, nothing in them, except
perhaps a natural shyness, which was per-

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fectly absurd with one's own nephew. I con-
cluded, however, not to mention this matter
to him until the time came. I have always
thought that in a ddnoiiemcut I should do
myself justice, and I simply made up my mind
to go through with it.

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'51

CHAPTER VII

When, during the week or ten days that
followed, Vernon questioned me, on account
of my pre-occupation, as to whether I was
feeling homesick, I flatter myself that I
never betrayed the situation by so much as
a start or a blush. I told him that his
housekeeping gave me a great deal to think
of, and that I was engaged in arranging
various forms of discipline for Radabullub,
which was quite as much as he needed to
know. As a matter of fact, Radabullub by
himself was enough to occupy the mind for
days together. I found that while it was
easy enough to take command of Vernon,
Radabullub presented difficulties. Rada-
bullub was as amiable and res[)ectful, as
intelligent and submissive, as he could be.

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but he never by any chance did as he was
told. Add to this the fact tliat he was ex-
tremely dignified and distinguished-looking,

HE WAS EXTREMELY DIGNIFIED

and wore a waxed moustache and turban at
least a foot and a half high, and you will see
that the reproofs one administers to a house-
maid in Christendom were simply of no use

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•53

with Radabulluh. I had to think of others,
and it took up a great deal of my time.

It was a trying experience — my effort to
reform Radabulluh. One of my ideas was
that he would look neater in an apron, and
I gave him two of my own — large useful
checked ones. He wore them only once, in
the early morning, both of them tied round
his neck and hanging down behind. When
I remonstrated he seemed to think I had
given them to him to keep out the cold. I
never saw them again, and whenever I in-
quired, Radabulluh said they were in the
hand of the cilioby !^ The dhoby's hand
must have been a ca[)acious member, for
everything that was missing was invariably
said to be in it. I constantlv meant to ask
the dhoby if it really was so, but he lived
three miles down stream, and thus escaped
cross-examination. Also, when I told Rada-
bulluh to produce him, he had always come
and gone precisely the day before. This

' Washerman.

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%

made the state of the dusters and dish towels
curious. I began by having them brought
to me — all that were not in the hand of the
dhoby. There were about four, and their
appearance was such that I had them taken
out immediately, and inspected them as they
lay on the grass at a distance. I had never
in my life seen anything so sinfully dirty,
and the smell of them was like nothing you
can conceive except that it might be said to
be keyed in kerosene. When I complained
of this odour of kerosene to Vernon, he said
that the article came as a boon and a bless-
ing to India, whose benighted inhabitants
had previously been obliged to lighten their
darkness with cocoa-nut oil, and that the
import was increasing annually by thousands
of gallons. Which is well enough in a way,
but my experience went to show that the
most valuable economic product could be
over-appreciated. This one enters so in-
timately into the life of the people of India —
who do not seem to mind the smell — that

VERNON'S AUNT ,55

one meets it everywhere. It starts up from
one's pillow, it suggests itself in one's chop,
it is implied somewhere, probably in the
butter, in one's afternoon tea. I told Vernon
that I wished he personally would import a
few gallons less for culinary purposes, and
he referred me as usual to Radabullub.

As to the Qih towels I immediately
hemmed a dozen with my own hand, and
gave them out. Three days afterwards I
found the original four still in active use, and
Radabullub told me with a virtuous smile that
he had sent all the new ones to the dhoby
I found afterwards that, while my deluded
nephew paid ten rupees a month to this same
dhoby, the money passed through the hand
of Radabullub, who had a private arrange-
ment of paying by the piece. The smaller
the wash, therefore, the greater the profit to
Radabullub— and Vernon could not be made
to .see the iniquity of this ! But, viewed in
I the light of my discovery, I am now obliged
I CO think that Radabullub told a felsehood
■ about those dish towels.

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I am qiittc^ aware that a camp is not a
house, and that a bachelor is a poor cn^atun?
to be entrusted with the management of his
domestic affairs — I am not unreasonable —
but the condition I found Vernon's in was
past putting up with. He did not know him-
self how many servants he had, and when he
began to count them over and explain to me
what each of them had to do, I lost all
patience. He regulated them on only one
principle that I " could discover, which was
that as soon as" one of his domestics had a
son old (Miough to make a pretence of being
useful he was taken on as 'mate' to his
father. Filial respect I knew before to be
strong among the natives of India, but I
realised it properly when I saw Vernon's
parent-cook sitting for long hours smoking
his hubble-bubble in the sun, while a young
hopeful of about twelve took upon himself
the entire responsibility for our dinner.
When I spoke seriously to Vernon about
this he said that the arrangement gave him

■'!l !

VERNOX'S AUNT

'57

not a
*(!fiturc
of his
able —
in was
w him-
hen he
I to me
ost all
ily one
:h was
; had a
being
to his
to be
but I
:irnon's
noking
young
himself
dinner,
about
ve him

!

a patriarchal feeling which was agreeable,
and that the ' mate ' only got half pay ! And
every horse and cow, every elephant and

A YOUNG HOPEFUL

camel, had its own special idolater to look
after it — my nephew's zoological expenses
alone came to a scandalous amount ! To the
end of my visit I was never able to connect

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VERNON'S AUNT

the right man with what he had to do, and I
was hourly tried by giving orders to the
wrong ones, and seeing Ram Jhan walk
away with dignity and call Huldhoo to
sweep up the crumbs, or Buldhoo arouse
Moulla Khan from his slumbers to put on
his turban and slip off his shoes, and bring
me a glass of water. Some people might
have enjoyed this superfluity — I did not.
And it seemed to me no extenuation when
Vernon told me that there were two hundred
and sixty million people in India, and he had
to provide for some of them.

In the very beginning I naturally asked
for the keys. There were no keys ! I re-
quested to be shown where the tea and sugar
were kept, and Radabullub indicated, in one
corner of the cook's tent, which was none
too big to hold the cook when he squatted —
nobody could stand up in it — a wooden box
with a lid on hinges. A large stone was
placed on the lid, which Radabullub seemed
disinclined to remove. He remarked that it

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159

and I

0 the
walk

)o to
irouse
ut on
bring
might

1 not.
when

indred
le had

asked
I re-
sugar
n one
none
tted —
tn box
e was
eemed
that it

was to keep out the 'billees,' or cats, and his
manner said that if he opened the box for
my benefit it woukl immediately be devas-
tated by these animals. When I insisted,
he opened the box, but with deprecation.

The tea and sugar were certainly there,
in bulk at the bottom, but scattered pretty
well over everything. Also the remains of a
fowl, half a loaf of ginger- bread, a lot of cold
potatoes with green mould on them, a pot of
jam, odd bits of cold toast, and about a dozen
cigars. Radabullub withdrew these hastily,
saying that they were of the sahib, but had
gone too plenty dry, and the sahib had given
them to him to make a little damp.

• So you put them in the jam-pot ! * I ex-
claimed, with bitterness of spirit.

On the ground beside the box lay the
cook's shoes and his pipe, a rusty iron spoon,
a tin dish half full of milk, and some onions.
The cook's bedding was rolled alongside,
and overhead a leg of mutton hung from
a rope. Outside, the cook's son hurriedly

r

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VERNON'S AUNT

tried to pick up sc^me egg-shells and leaves
that were scattered on the ground, for fear
I should find the establishment untidy ! I
said nothing, but I think my eye must have
been expressive, from the silent and abject
manner in which every man among them
folded his hands in front of him, and tried
to shuftle his toes behind him, and looked
everywhere but at me. I said nothing,
schooling myself to remember that they were
only poor degraded heathen, and had never
had a hundredth part of the advantages
Jane and Annie had enjoyed in my kitchen ;
but it was very difficult.

I had come out with the intention of
making some jam tarts, and I asked Rada-
bullub to show me the kitchen tent, inwardly
hoping that there might be a clean table in
it, and that I should understand the manage-
ment of the stove — my own in Litdehampton
burnt coal only. A few paces off under a
tree two or three heaps of grey ashes
smouldered inside as many round ragged

VERNON'S AUNT

i6i

eaves
- fear
y! I

have
abject

them
I tried
looked
3thing,
y were
[ never
intages
itchen ;

tion of
Rada-
tiwardly
able in
lanage-
ampton
nder a
ashes
ragged

embankments (»f dry mud. A coiipU? of
saucepans lay about aimlessly em[)ty, and a
kettle tilted its spout up at the sun, which
was putting the last of the embers out.
Radabullub remarked that this was the place
for the cooking. I controlled myself again,
and simply said there was no oven.

'Without doubt, your honour, an oven
is,' said Radabullub, and they brought me a
round rusty tin box, which I have no doubt
they buried in red-hot coals in the way of
the ancient Britons. But it was not my way.
I proceeded to take off the lids of the sauce-
pans, while the cook stood by and accounted
lluently for their condition in a tongue which
perhaps it was as well for both of us that
I couldn't understand, while Radabullub dis-
creetly withdrew to the shelter of the tent.

The day's supplies came in while I endea-
voured to inculcate into Radabullub some of
the first principles of kitchen propriety, and
he translated them to the cook, who received
them with grave and grateful waggings of the

1 6a

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hcail. Th(.!V came in two llat baskets swiinu:

r->

by ropes from a slick which a coolie carried

J rROLLElH.D TU TAKl, OIF Tilt LIDb

li

ilU

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163

across his shouklcrs. There were fish am!
loaves and meat and vegetables, and a bottle
ol llar\'e\'s sauce, a tin of boot l)lackin<'. a

1 111: DAY S SUri'llKS

box of soap, some candles, a new razor-strop,
and other articles.

' This man is ban<^ey-vvallah, your honour,'
said Radabullub. 'Twelve miles he comes.'

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' He has a great deal to carry,* I said.
' How much is he paid ? '

* His price four annas.'

* Four annas ! ' I cried. ' That is far too
httle ! ' And I took out my own purse, and
gave him eight. The bangey-walhih took it.
looked at it discontentedly, salaamed, and
said something.

' What is it ? ' I asked Radabullub.

* He say he comes very far — and your
honour gives too little,' replied Radabullub.

* These b.'ngey-waWahs they are sons of
mud,' he added cheerfully, and I agreed with
him.

I did not make the jam tarts — nobody
would have undertaken them under such
circumstances. I saw at once that anv
reform I might intn duce would have to i>e
radical, and in orde to think about it, I felt
obliged to sit down. So I went back to m\
own tent, and spent some hours in rellection.
I worked out an excellent scheme, but 1
might just as well say here that it diil not

I said.

; far too

rsc, and

took it.

xl, and

id voiir
jullub.
sons of
ed with

nobody
IV such
lat anv

(J to \K)

it, I felt
< to niv
lloction.
, but I
did not

VERNON'S AC NT

.65

I

come to anything, so 1 needn't trouble you
with the details. It was defeated by curinu^
outbreaks in the families of the whole kitchen
establishment, which occurr(!d the first dav
it came into force. Moulla Khan's grand-
mother died suddenly, and the cook lost his
father, while Radabullub's mother-in-law sent
word that she could not live another twenty-
lour hours, and they all wanted leave to go
and bury or burn thc^se departed friends.
X'ernon said h(^ was very sorry, when I re-
ported the matter to him, but all this mor-
tality was directl)- owing to my system, and
Ii(! was afraid it would hav(! to b(^ withdrawn.
n<^ said h(; iX\i\\\\ mind the cook or Moulla
Khan, but h(! n(!ver allowc'd deaths in kada-
Inillub's fjuiiily— the man was too valuabk'.

The days won! on. filled for \}.\v. most part
with Vernon's undergarments, some of which
had accunujlat(,'d elevep. years of repairs.
There were moments, as I sat at the d(,.,r of
my tent manipulating a heelless sock, when I
Hsk(-d myself whether 1 was reallv aitaim-iiu

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VERNON'S AUNT

*l^

my ()l)j(:ct in coming to India — the acqiiiro
m(!nt of Oriental experiences — W.'rnon's sock
was so very British in its charact(M*. Yet
when I tri(!d to observe,' the; habits of the;

HKI'AIKS

natives I iisiiallv foimcl tlier.i in a slumber
which offered no points of peculiarity. If
they were; not ash^ep, they imme^diately
stopj)ed whatever they were doing at m\-

PERAON'S AUNT

167

11 's sock

Yet

of the

r

iluml

)cr

ity. If

xliatclv
at 111)-

approach and stood up. I could only walk
round them and come away. VcM-non him-
self had not Orientalised in the slightest
degree. H(! was even more' P,ritish than
when he left home, but I was sometimes
shocked to hear the way he spoke of Parlia-
ment. His manners had not improved— h(!
said there wxTe climatic reasons why h(,'
should put his feet on the table if I didn't
mind. His capacity for family affection was
entir(;ly taken up with S(iuips, and his time;
with long excursions into thc! fon'st on ele-
phants, or interviews with natives, who rode
into the- camp on little squealing ponies, and
sat on their heels round his t(Mit until he
should be pleased to see them. I Ix^lievc- he
dispensed justice on these occasions, and thos(>
who sat on their heels outside w(,'re usually
culprits. The offences did not seem to me
very heinous— their goats had be^Mi eating the
lower branches of Gov(irnment forc^st trec^s, or
they had been cutting a few down to sell — but
Vernon took them as seriousl)- as if ht! were

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$

a vvhol(! High Court, and always j)ut on a
coat and the most awful demeanour for thi!
occasion.

Mr. Jont;s w(;nt away the morning after
thr. tragc^dy of th(; cat, k^aving mr. a \'ivid
im[)ressi()n of the undisciplined nature of the
Indian tea-planter. Major Parker stayed a
week, and gave; me during that Umv. a dail)'
sensation to which I could not Ix^come accus-
toni(!d. Ii(; was at Nudcliwalla, 1 belit^ve,
for the pur[)ose of pure slaughttT — a singular
aim for such a small, meek, blushing man as
he was. And every morning, about ten
o'clock, I was startled an(,'W I))' {\u' adxcnt of
the largest iind most imj)osing of the ele-
phants marching into camp, with Major
Parker and his rilk; wol)l)lin^ about in the
howdah, and a pretty spotted cheetah, or a
ictopard, and an assortment of wild birds
danu'lino at the animal's sicU;. It was a i^orv
spectacle, and it never ceased to thrill me.
Major Parker was not conversational, and 1
never succec^ded in jXTsuading him to feel at

on a

)r thi;

aft(T

vivid

)f the

yccl a

daily

accus-

['lil!V(',

ngiilar
Kin as

It t('!l

nt of

clc-

Major

1 the.

or a

1)1 rds

I oforv

II inc.
and I
feel at

MARCfUXG INTO CAMP

I70

J 'E /AXON'S AUNT

^ V1

%'f

home with xxw.. He used to make a few
timid remarks at breakfast and dinner, and I
beHeve he devoted the tim(! between to
repose. I fek, when he went away, that a
valuabhi opportunity of acquiring knowledge
of the East hatl been missed, yet I coukl
not conscientiously blame myself in the
matter. I met very few Anglo-Indians who
did not leave me with the same impression.

There was certainly no lack of natural
history in Nuddiwalla if my nerves had per-
mittcxl me to study it. But I found it abso-
lutely impossible to accept the elephant and
the camel in the capacity of ordinary domestic
animals. They seemed to have all the
virtues, but they lacked the attractions.
They had no (;nd(*aring ways. They never
forgot themselv(;s ; (!ven wh(Mi the elephants
blew trunkfuls of sand over their backs, it did
not strike one as frolicsome. Neither could
I conquer my aversion to being anywhere in
the leighbourhood of an elephant who was
not chained up by the leg. W^non's never

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171

were ; they lived with their mahouts, in a
very iiK;ft'ectual enclosure, on the most free-
and-easy terms of intercourse. They were
always standing up, too, which struck me as
dangerous-looking, though I do not, of
course, mean to imply that they never moved.
Only when I noticed that one of them was
preparing to turn round, I always went away.
And they were fed on Christian flour and
water, too, baked into cakes, which was
another unnatural thing. I wondered, the
first time I saw this, that India should have
any corn to send out of the country at all.
Hut I suppose the jungle elephants have not
yet acquired the taste for a farinaceous diet.
The camels, on the other hand, had no parti-
cular place to live in, and never stood up a
minute longer than they could help. It was,
therefore, im[)ossible to walk twenty yards in
any direction in camp without coming upon
one of these animals, with his legs folded up
in sections under him, his head stretched out
in vacant philosophy, and his under ja\/

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moving from side; to side in rhythmic union
with his ntHections. In the cbiytimc one
could walk round him, but at night, even
with a lantern, he was visionary, problem-
atic, uncertain. I tumbled over one camel
in th(; dark, and it was an experience which
neither he nor I will ever forget. It seemed
to be a miraculous esca[)e for both of us.
Nothing could induce m(;, howe\(;r, to make
the details public.

There was also a [)ython which tried to
domesticate itself, but I am happy to say my
nephew drew the line at boa-constrictors.
This one made; itsi^lf comfortable imder tlu;
ground-cloth of his tent, which undulated
one morning, while \\v. was shaving, in a
manner that attracted his attention. In my
opinion it is to the honour of the family that
Vernon Jiiiis/icd s/iaviiio\ and then called
Radabullub to his assistance, for the undu-
lations were large. Between them they des-
patched tht; crc^aturt.', and I saw ihv. corpse.
It was ten black feet long, and as thick as a

l^EKNON'S AUXT

I7J

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VI'IRNON'S AUXT

%'&'■

niJin's arm, Jiiul then; was no reason what-
ever, except the special Providence which
watches over old maids in the tropics, why
it should not have crawled into my tent
instead of Vernon's. I might mention, too,
the centii)edes that I found drowned occa-
sionally in the water-jug, and the leaves and
twigs and llowers that crept about with legs
and antenme, and the other queer thing in
spectacles that sat up and felded its arms,
and caught mosquitoes on the tent wall when
the lamps were lit ; but while I have endeav-
oured to fill up the interval, as it were, with
these things, I feel that Mr. Bux and the
ddnoucment can no longer be delayed.

You may be sure that I awaited further
communications feverishly, but none reached
me. Once my natural curiosity got the
better of me, and I asked Radabullub if any
gentleman lived in the neighbourhood by the
name of Bux. Radabullub immediately
mentioned Mahomed Bux, Ali Bux, Mir
Kassim Bux, Moniroddin Bux, and various

f:

J7-:A\V()A"S Al'X/'

"75

other Hiixcs, but Alxliil Kariin was not
amongst them. I cHcl not press the i)()int, as
I felt that since; I had tak(Mi oxer the
accounts, I could rely still less upon Rada-
bullul). In the matter of the accounts,
Radabullub and I represented opposed
policies. I was for retrenchment, he was
lor expansion, and he met my arguments
with a skill which daz/led nn;. If I thou^dit
proper to question the j)rice of a joint, for
instance, Radabullub would salaam with irri-
tating humility, saying, ' Let it be as your
honour pleases; I ^^'V?c'd' three ruj)ees ! ' indi-
cating a suffering willingness to bear the
loss. But while sometimes I was worsted
ignominiously, and sometimes we made
mutual concessions, there were other times
when I triumphed loftily, and Rarlabullub
was abased. Remembering this, I was loth
to excite this man's suspicions with regard to
any particular Bux, and received his state-
ment about the popuhition at large with
apparent indifference.

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176 VERNON-'S AC XT

CHAPTER VIII

I DKTERMiXKi) Oil thc momincf of Friehiv,
Jiinuciry the loth, to go about my ordinary
duties in my ordinary way, precisely as if
Mahomedan suitors were in the habit of
arriving every day to ask my hand of my
nephew. Vernon saw nothing unusual in
my manner at the breakfast-table. I looked
carefully at the cup as I handed hini his
coffee, and it did not tremble. I talked
coherently and uninterruj^tedly about the
I)ractice of suttee and the number of tiungs
that had been missing from the wash. I felt
almost callous. If Vernon had sat before me
as the arbiter of my fate I should have had
less control, perhaps, over my emotions.
But he was merely to be the agent of Mr.

r/-;A'.\7).\-.v Aiwr

^77

Frithiv,
rdinarv
y as it
Libit of

of my
sual in

looked
^im his

talked
but the

things

I felt

fore me

ive had

notions.

of Mr.

Biix's. 1 had alrc!ady composed the sentences,
on the lines of my letter, in which 1 should
deli\'er it to my nephew when he came to
inc|uire my wishes in the matter.

■»*»*'■•■"■-'»''■

1 LOOKED CARF.rUI.I.V AT THF. (UP

The usual rm^y of offenders sat on their
heels round the tent when I left it, while the
usual number of disreputable ponies with
pink noses snapped and squealed at each

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178

VERN(\yS ALWT

()thf;r under the nearest tree. There was
no siLjn anywhere of Mr. P)iix. I went
into my tent and tried to occuj)y myself with
a newspaper. It was futile. Radaljulkil)
came to ask me whether wc; woukl ha\'e
cheetal's liver or jungle-fowl for luncheon. I
said cheetal's liver.

'Stay!' I add(Kl. 'When Mr. Abdul
Karim Bux arrives this morning", let me
know, Radabullub.' .And he said he would.

For a long time I sat unoccupied, trying
to be sorry for Mr. Bux. It was difficult —
he had been so very, ver\- precii)itat(^ When
at last Radabullub, outside the tent-door,
said ' Madam ! ' I started quite perceptibly.
* Your honour,' said Radabullub, when I
appeared, ' Abdul Karim Bux is now with
the sahib in the ofPice-khana.'

' Has he been there long?' I asked ner-
vously.

' While one might make a fire of wet
chii)S. And it appears,' added Radabullub,
' that there has been a fault, and the anger of

*

ner-

)f wet
>ullub,
g-er of

roMKs sNAi'ri;i> xnd squealkij ai kach oihkr

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V/iAWnX'S A UXT

'i! ^'

the sahib is hot. There is abuse,' said
Radabiillub, ' and very loud talk.'

I did not hesitate a moment. No un-
ha|)])y Mahomedan should suffer indignities
at the hands of my nephew because of a
sudd(Mi and foolish, but not unnatural, attach-
ment for his aunt. It was bad enough, I
reflected, as I walked rapidly over to the
t(Mit, that his affection should be unrequited.
I could hear Vernon storming ten yards
away. * It's no use ! ' he was saying angrily,
as I entered. ' You've got no case, and you'd
better clear out ! I don't know how you
dare '

' What does this mean } ' I interrupted,
as calmly as I could force myself to speak.
' Is this the way to address any gentleman,
however dark his complexion or idolatrous
his creed, who comes to you in this capacity,
V(;rnon ? '

' My clear aunt ' Vernon began

peremi)torIly, but the instant he saw and
heard me, Mr. Bux prostrated himself,

l7-:A\y().V'S AUXT

f8i

with touchin^r Oriental humilitv. at mv
nc[)hcvv's feet, and copiously embraced them.
'(ic't up!' shouted Vernon heartlessly.
'Aunt Vinnie. this is a matter '

MR. i!UX PKOhTRATED HIMSKI.K

* In which,' I remarked firmly, ' I have
some right, I fancy, to be consulted.'

' I say no more words,' put in xMr. lUix,

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without nioviiiLr. ' The nol)k; rclativ(; will
have car of the sahib — knowing that 1 am
truth-confessing man. Madam will pk^ad
cause of unfortunate person. I am lucky to
have favour of Madam.'

\'ernon glared at me unbecomingly, and
wij)etl his forehead. ' What do you know
about it ? ' he asked.

' All,' I responded, with perfect calm.
' lie. has not dared to tell )ou, perhaps, how
he came to my protc;ction at the railway
station, and how nobly he kept the elephant
at bav. He has not ventured to mention
how he assisted me, and accompanied me.
and reassured me, during the ordeal of the
fifteen miles of troi)ical waste which I tra-
versed on that top-heavy and dangennis
creature ! How he told me much about
himself and w(mi my interest, if not my
affection. Nor has he told you of the
])athetic letter in which he set forth all his
hopes that I would consent to be his '

' What!'

J '/i /AXON'S AU\T

1-^3

'(! Will

I ain

plciid

icky to

y, ciiid
know

calm,
s. liow
•ail way
cphaiu
icntion

^d OK'.

of the:
I tra-
ijfcnjiis
about
3t m\
:)f the
all his

Mr. P)iix's head and X'cmon's feet started
apart as if by an electric shock. W-rnon
stared at me like a lunatic. Mr. lUix gathered
himself up, anti adjusted his spectacles with
trembling fmgers. Thc^ open door suddenly
became full of the heads of the popula-
tion of Nuddivvalla. Kadabullub came in,
ostentatiously bearing a glass of water on a
tray. X'ernon seized the glass, and hurled
it out of the door, and his excellent butler
followed it very rapidlw

'Mr. Ikix has interpreted my silence to
mean consent,' I went on, with composure.
' I could not answer his letter, for it ga\'e no
address. Hut there is no hope for you.
Abdul Karim,' I added— ' none.'

Vernon was tearing up and down the tent
like a caged lion, biting wildly at his mous-
tache. Suddenly he turned upon Mr. Hux,
who immediately interposed a chair between
his person and my nephew.

' Am I to understand; bellowed Vernon,
' that you have tried to complicate > our rela-

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tions with the T'orcst I)(?j)artnK!iU l^y paxinL;
\()iir iiifcirnal addresses to my aiDit (*'

• Softly, VcriioM,' I intcr|)oscd. ' Mr. lUix
has been very respectful.'

'Respectful be hanged!' he shouted.
\\:rnon was certainly very much excited.

INTKRl'OSEI) A CHAU^

' Kind sir will not assault humble .servant,'
said Mr. Bux simply, from behind the chair.
' or there will be damages proceedings, and
a fine, which will benefit nobody. I haxe
not the honour to understand.'

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J7:A\V().\'S AUXT

1S5

I fctk annoyctl, perhaps uiircasoiiahly.
' I will ihaiik you, X'cnion, not to impute; aii\
interested motives to Mr. Hux in offerin^r nie
his haiul,' I said, with some heat. ' \'ou
have no n^ht to do so. I admit the i)roposal
was too sudden— but by this time vou ()U(du

to know the Oriental temperament '

I doubt whether my nei)hew heard me,
l)ut 1 regret to say that at this point he
swore, and made a dash at Mr. Hu.x, who
with one bound eluded him. In an instant I
had j)ut my person between the combatants,
and was doing my best to pacify Vernon,
while his unfortunate victim circled round me
in a vain attemi)t to evade my infuriated
nephew.

'Respect my corpus, sir!' I heard him
beseech, and then, to my horror, X^ernon
got at him, knocked him down, sat on him.
and would have proceeded without doubt
to utterly demolish him had I not thrown
myself on my knees beside them, and forcibly
interfered. As it was, Mr. A. K. lUix's

KNOCKED HIM DOWN

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spcclaclcs were; hrokcii, his luxuriant whiskers
filled with dirt, and his clothes in a state not
lit to 1)(! se(;n.

' 1 do //(^/understand,' rei)eated Mr. Hux.
with astonishin;^- hlandness, 'hut there will
be damanrcs proceedings. Madam is witness,
also all the servant folk.' he added, glancing
at the door.

M) nephew took two stricK;s \\\ th.it
direction, and in an instant not so nuich as
the turl)an of a spectator was left upon the
scene, llis attc:ini)t to inllict bodily dainace
Upon Mr. Bux apparently calmed him.

'This must be looked into,' he said
sternly. ' Where is his letter }'

' WiiVLt,^ said I. producing it from my
pocket. 'And remember, X'ernon, in reading
it, that while Mr. Bux is by no means un-
educated, he has not had vour advantao-cs.
and naturally expresses himself differently.'

' Calcutta University,' murmured Mr.
Bux humbly. ' b^iiled B.A. Most intelli-
gent ant ! '

iS8

VERNON'S AUNT

V.

I I may be excused I would rather not
enter into the details of the scene which fol-
lowed. Vernon read the letter through, and
then burst into a violent, ungovernable, and
unbecoming fit of laughter, which will cost
him, unless I relent, four hundred a year for
the term of his natural life. When he had
dried his eyes and held his sides for a few-
minutes, he turned to Mr. Bux, to mv amaze-
ment, with a smile.

' Abdul Karim,' said he, ' there has been
a —a slight misunderstanding.'

He hesitated, reflected a moment, and
then drew a sheet of foolscap toward him,
took a pen, and went on :

' I have now decided to take down in
writing your explanation of the matter about
which you have called to see me. H'm ! '

' I can explain perfectly to your honour's
satisfaction of all the charges,' said Mr. Bux
anxiously.

' You are the forest-ranger at the Balli-
gurri outpost. When Liiki Lai Beg cut and

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F/CAWON'S A (/AT

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dc^ported sixty maunds of sal above his con-
tract, why was it that you did not report the
matter ? '

' Your honour, 1 was for ten days smitten
with a pleurisy of the vital ceiitres, and knew
nothing of it. I give my word no money
passed into my hand. Not so much nso/ie j)ice.'

Mr. Bux prepared again to embrace m\'
nephew's feet, but X'ernon, writing, staved
him with his hand.

' It is enough,' said he. Mr. Bux's eyes
sparkled intelligently.

' You will produce a medical certificate to
that effect,' added my nephew.

* Oyessir ! Being poor man, I was not
attendinc[ the doctor at that time, l^ut I can
supply medical certificate from nati\'e doctor
all the same. It is small charge only.'

Vernon bit his moustache.

' And as to the pasturing of fourteen goats
of H ossein AH, and eleven cattle of Muck-
doom Bux, your uncle, and your brother's
son, without a license, either of them ? '

I90

J'ERNON'S AUNT

* Now I pni\' your honour to consider
this. About that time came news of wild
elephant, very strong tusk-wallah, niakino'
many misdemeanours with the millet crop of
Ramasawmy on the other side of the stream.
Every night he was coming and rolling in
the millet, and Ramasawmv he was reachinij:
to the; brink of perdition. So always I was
going to Ramasawmy with my gun, and
waiting the whole night for that elephant.
Therefore, in the davtimes, I was issl(H'i)ino:
when those goat and catties came to (;at, and
yesterday both these evil men obtained
license at my comniand.'

'Did you get the ele[)hant ? ' asked
Vernon, with wonderful suavity.

' Your honour, how could I do it ^
There was but the; one; gun, and moreover
Ramasawmy wept when I spoke of the kill-
ing. Those; Hindoo, they will kill nothing.
But I fired the; gun, and always then he
would go away.'

' That will do/ said Vernon ; * you had a
v(;rv bad case, Abdul Karim, but, as \()u

VERNcWS A IWT

|(r

it?

191

-sec, this lady has iiitcrcodccl for you, and
^ ^^"^ inch-ncd to consider her rcpresnua-
tHHis. 'Sc. that none of these things happen

agam.

' Certainly not, sir. And I. sir, will not

rnstitiitc damages |)roceedino-s •

'I wouldn't, if I were you.'

' But sir, there is cost of spectacles, tlire-e
rupees eight annas^ '

' By all means. Here j-ou are I Now
\ ou have leave to go.'

Mr. I5ux caught the coins as they rolled
off the table, salaamed humbly to Vernon
even more humbly to me, and departed int.i
the outer sunlight an exploded ideal
\'ernon toyed with his watch-chain, and a
somewhat awkward silenc. asserted itself
between us. ' I stippose you understand,' he
said at length.

• Oh, yes,' I said, • I understand ; xou
needn't explain.'

'Fortunately, /,, didn't,' reflected my
nephew audibly. 'Otherwise I shottldn't
have been able to avoid his bringing me up

i

102

VF.hWdX'S y\U\'T

forassriult, and having to (!xplaln in court win
I kicked hitn. (iad ! ' ('xckiimcd my ncqjhcw.
' How Junimanuggcr would have buzzc;d ! '

SALAAMED HUMni.V

* Vernon,' I responded, ' do not dwell
upon it.'

' I won't. But you see how it was. The
fellow expected you to make inquiries, of

17:A\\()\'S a (XT

'93

course, and interest voiirself in him. And
the magistrate would ha\e found that you
had taken the man up on insufficitMit '

* V^ernon,' said I, 'since my affections did
not become involvc'd, the matter is not of the
sHghtest consequence. I wonder you do not
see that.' And I rose to leave him.

' I don : know,' he returned ; ' if I
haven't been compounding a felony on your
accoimt, it's more by good luck than gccd
morals.'

When I reflected upon this it seemed to
indicate that my influcmce upon Vernon's
higher nature had been the reverse of what
I intended. Perhaps this was not much in
itself, but the next day my nephew
announced that Mr. Jones and four other
planters were coming to Nuddiwalla for a
week to shoot, and that they were all going
to bring their own elephants. This con-
vinced me that it would be inexcusable to
leave the Orient without seeing more of it
than I had, and that it was my plain duty to

o

194

VERNON'S AUNT

\w

expand my experiences. I broke it to
Vernon as gently as I could.

' I was afraid,' said he sadly, ' that camp
life in this country wouldn't suit you, Auni
Vinnie ! '

' Yesterday,' I said, in reply, ' I fount! a
brown hairy scorpion as big as a crab, with
six little scorpions on its back, in the crown
of my bonnet, Vernon. Last night a rat ate
off the whole middle finger of each of my
best black kid orl^vcs. And this mornino- I
surprised Moulla Khan making the toast for
chota hazri.^ He was buttering it with a
small bntsh, Vernon — I don't say what kind
of a brush, but it had a white handle. I fear
you are right. It is difficult at my time of
life to become inured to this country.'

After that I travelled largely, and ni)-
diary is full of the most valuable records
of what I saw at such places as Cawnpore,
Benares, Delhi, and Calcutta. I visited
twenty-seven mission schools, forty-three

' Early breakfast.

VERNON- S AUNT

'95

tcmpU's, eleven native bazaars, an opium
factory, and the Taj ; and I have a l)ook
of photographs which now forms the
great attraction of my afternoon teas at
Littlehampton. Mr. Grule, who manfully
succeeded in evading Letitia Bray in my
absence, declares that with their help my
conversation enables him to realise the East
perfectly. Our book club has four volumes
of travels in India by different authors, how-
ever, who seem to have noticed exactly the
same things. My earlier experiences appear
to be the only ones which have not been
published before. It may seem unnecessarily
modest on my part, but that is the reason I
have confined myself to Nuddiwalla.

This morning a very curious and inte-
resting thing happened, which lends itself, as
the novelists say, to the purpose of this nar-
rative in the most wonderful way. Perhaps
it would be better to write ' may lend itself,'

O 2

K/)

VEhWON'S AiWT

for at ijrcscnt I have of course onl\ in\ own
surmises and convictions.

I was coming out of Mrs. Dodd's shop
with a dozen bone buttons and three ) ards
of long-cloth, my imagination entirely taken
u[) with next day's work-party, and the bell
had rung sharply behind me as I closctd ihc
door. A gentleman stood in my way, lean-
ing on his stick and looking earnestly up ai
Mrs. Dodd's sign. It seemed an unusual
thing to take an interest in, but I dare say 1
should have walked round him in the ordi-
nary manner, if I had not been struck 1)\
something familiar in the curve of his
shoulders and the reflection of his spectacles.
F'or one instant I hesitated. India and a
dramatic situation flashed back upon me.
This was not Vernon — no mole visible —
never had been Vernon. I knew him —
James W. Jamieson, at whose hands I

once But simultaneously I recognised

that he was in mourning, and decided to bury
my wrongs and bow.

V'ERXON'S AUXT

197

He recognised me instantly and held out
an eager hand. I remembered his im|)Lilsi\e
character and took it gingerly.

' Then yon are still here ! ' he ejaculated
hurriedl)-. ' The other is — is not ! '

I could not pretend to misunderstand
him, and I offered what condolences I could
frame u[)on the spur of the monient.

' Doubtless,' I said, ' she is better where
she is.'

' Oh, certainly ! ' he responded ; ' I am
quite sure of that. I superintended all the
details myself It is a nice situation, and
the monument is very chaste.'

I remembered that it is a virtue in official
circles to be literal.

He looked at me attentively again — ([uite
in his old manner.

' You are the image of her, madam,' he said.
' As she was. In earlier and hap[)ier days.'

' And you,' I replied, ' are not an atom
like X'ernon. As he was or is. At any
time whatever. I don't know how I C(juld

h

l';8

VERNON'S AUNT

have made; such a ])r('p()stc:rc)us mistake

If you hachi't ' l:)Ut there I ])ausc:cl. It

was impossible to remind Mr. Jamiesoii of
that pubh'c embrace, at the memory of which
my cheek still burned.

Me was evidently thinking of the same
thing.

' Yes,' he responded. ' If I hadn't ' — and
then after a period of reflection he added
calmly:

' On the whole, it is perhaps as well that
I did.'

I gasped, but he had fallen into step widi
me.

' It will be easier,' he went on abseniK,
' to accomplish again. If it should he
necessary. If it should be necessary. May I
ask in what year you were born, madam ? '

' I was never good at dates,' I replied,
passing my hand across my forehead.

' Just my wife's age! ' he exclaimed with
unconcealed satisfaction. ' Were you asking
me how I came to be in Littlehamptoii,
madam ? '

r/iAWOXS AU\T

199

' No,' I said, ' I was not. Pra\ do not be
prccii)itatc.'

' I came,' he said, disregarding mc, ' to
revive the mc;lanchol)- interest the place has
for me in connection with m\' wife.'

' Your wife never lived here ! ' I returned
with some asperity, for this was not what I
expected.

* But you did,' he rejoined, with an absent
look at me.

' Surely I have not again to [)ersuade
you '

* No,' he interru[)ted hurriedly, * certainly
not. You were not she. On that point I
yield. But it was so very much the same
thing. You might have been. You might
be!' We were approaching Holly Cottage.
Involuntarily I hastened my footsteps, with
downcast eyes. * If you knew the difficulty I
experienced in becoming accustomed to Mrs.
Jamieson,' he continued pathetically, ' you
would interpose no unnecessary obstacle.'

We reached the gate, and to conceal my
emotion I opened it.

f-

20O

VERNON'S AUNT

' For the iiL'xt few hours I shall he ciiitin;
out, Mr. Janiic'son,' I said, with rcfcrcjiice t<
the work-party, ' and that is an occupatioj
for which I must have an untroubled mine
lUit I shall be at home in the afternoon.'

* May I come to tea ? ' he asked.

* Do,' I responded, rellecting with satil
faction that this was the baker's day fcjrfrc
crumpets. So he is coming to tea.

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